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THE 



Charters and By-Laws 



OF 



THE TRUSTEES OF 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 



AND 



THE RULES OF ORDER OF THE BOARD. 




THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 
1906 



RULES OF ORDER 73 



1 6. When the Presiding Officer has commenced taking the vote, 
no further debate or remarks shall be admitted, unless there has evi- 
dently been a mistake, in which case the mistake shall be rectified and 
the Presiding Officer s,hall recommence taking the vote. 

17. The yeas and nays on any question shall not be recorded 
unless required by one-third of the members present. 

18. No member, in the course of the debate, shall be allowed to 
indulge in personal reflections. 

19. If more than one member rise to speak at the same time, the 
member who is most distant from the Presiding Officer's chair shall 
speak first. 

20. When more than three members of the Board shall be 
standing at the same time, the Presiding Officer may require all to 
take their seats, the person only excepted who may be speaking. 

21. Every member, when speaking, shall address himself to the 
Presiding Officer. 

22. No speaker shall be interrupted, unless he be out of order, 
or for the purpose of correcting mistakes or misrepresentations. 

23. Without express permission, no member of the Board, while 
business is going on, shall engage in private conversation. 

24. Members shall attend closely, in their speeches, to the subject 
under consideration ; and when they deviate from the subject, it shall 
be the privilege of any member, and the duty of the Presiding Officer, 
to call them to order. 

25. If any member consider himself aggrieved by a decision of. 
the Presiding Officer, it shall be his privilege to appeal to the Board, 
and the question on the appeal shall be taken without debate. 

26. Any member shall have the right to have his dissent from, 
or protest against, any action of the Board, with the reason therefor, 
if couched in respectful language, recorded in the minutes. 



THE 



Charters and By-Laws 



OF 



THE TRUSTEES OF 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 



AND 



THE RULES OF ORDER OF THE BOARD. 




THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 

1906 



GIFT 

MRS. WOODROW WfLSOM 
NOV. 25, 1939 






\5> 'V 



General Index 



PAGE 

I. Statement concerning the Original Charter 5-7 

II. Charter 9" 2 ° 

III. Laws of New Jersey establishing and amending 

the Charter, and otherwise relating to the Uni- 
versity 21-43 

IV. By-Laws of the Trustees 45-67 

V. Rules of Order 69-73 



Statement Concerning the Original Charter. 

The first Charter passed the Great Seal of the Province of New 
Jersey on the 22d of October, A. D. 1746. This appears from the 
facts hereinafter stated, viewed in connection with a Record in the 
office of the Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, of which 
the following is the print of a certified copy. 

Extracts From the Records of the Province of New Jersey. 

A Charter to Incorporate Sundry Persons to found a 
College pass'd the Great Seal of this Province of New Jersey, 
Tested by John Hamilton, Esq., President of His Majesty's 
Council, and Commander in Chief of the Province of New 
Jersey, the 22d October, 1746. 
State of New Jersey, ) 
Department of State, j s ' 

I, Henry C. Kelsey, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby 
certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certain record as the same is taken 
from and compared with the original record recorded in Book C 2 of Commissions, 
on page 137, and now remaining on file in my office. 
<v«&> IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 

hand and affixed my official seal, at Trenton, this twenty- 
fifth day of March, A. D. 1891. 

(Signed) HENRY C. KELSEY, 

Secretary of State. 

The Charter thus mentioned has been lost — certainly for more 
than a century. Strange to say, no transcript of it was entered 
upon the Records of the Province, and no copy, so far as can be 
ascertained by the authorities of the University, is in existence. It 
was recently discovered, however, that an extended "Notice," pub- 
lished at Philadelphia, A. D. 1747, in two Philadelphia journals, con- 
tains what is clearly a full abstract of the lost instrument. The 
papers containing this Notice are the Pennsylvania Journal, in its 
issues of August 13th, 27th, and September 10th, and the Pennsylvania 
Gazette, in its issues of August 13th and 27th. A copy of this docu- 
ment is given below. 




6 STATEMENT CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL CHARTER 

It is manifest, from the date assigned in the Notice to the Charter 
mentioned therein, viz., October 22, 1746, that the instrument men- 
tioned was the one whose passage of the Great Seal was recorded, as 
above set forth, in the Records of the Province of New Jersey. It 
will also appear, upon a comparison of the Notice with the Charter of 
the College of New Jersey, granted A. D. 1748, that the Charter men- 
tioned in the former relates to the institution contemplated in the latter. 
The names of the corporators and the provisions of the two instru- 
ments are almost identical, 1 and the facts set forth in the notice con- 
cerning the establishment of a College correspond with well-established 
facts in the history of what, for one hundred and fifty years, was 
known as the College of New Jersey. On February 13th, 1896, under 
legislative authority, the corporate name of the institution was changed 
from The Trustees of the College of New Jersey to The Trustees of 
Princeton University. 

NOTICE. 

THESE ARE TO GIVE NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED 

That by His Majesty's Royal Charter for erecting a College in New Jersey, for 
the instruction of youth in the learned Languages and in the liberal Arts and Sci- 
ences, bearing date October 22nd, 1746, Messrs. William Smith, Peter Vanbrugh 
Livingston, William Peartree Smith, Gent., and Messrs. Johnathan Dickinson, John 
Pierson, Ebenezer Pemberton, and Aaron Burr, Ministers of the Gospel, are ap- 
pointed Trustees of the said College; with full power to any four or more of them, 
to chuse five more Trustees to the exercise of equal power and authority in the said 
College with themselves. By virtue of which power, the said Trustees, nominated in 
the Charter, have chosen the Rev. Messrs. Gilbert Tennant, William Tennant, Sam- 
uel Blair, Richard Treat, and Samuel Finley, as Trustees of the said College of 
New Jersey : Which Trustees are by the said Charter, constituted a body corporate 
and politick, both in fact and name, with full power to act as such to all intents and 
purpose, and rendered capable of a perpetual succession to continue forever. By 
which Royal Charter, there is authority given to the major part of any seven or 

J The number of Trustees (original and elected) mentioned in the notice was 
only twelve. All of these gentlemen, with the exception of the Rev. Messrs. Dick- 
inson and Finley, were amongst the corporators mentioned in the Charter of 1748. 
Of the two gentlemen excepted it should be noted that the Rev. Mr. Dickinson died 
in 1747, before the granting of the second charter; and that the Rev. Mr. Finley was. 
elected a Trustee in 1751. Dr. Finley held his office as Trustee until 1761, in which 
year he assumed the office of President of the Institution. 



STATEMENT CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL CHARTER 7 

more of the said Trustees, and their successors conven'd for that purpose, to pur- 
chase, receive, and dispose of any possessions, tenements, goods and chattels, gifts, 
legacies, donations, and bequests, rents* profits, and annuities of any kind whatso- 
ever, and to build any house or houses, as they shall think proper, for the use of the said 
College. And also by the said Charter is given to the major part of any seven or 
more of the said Trustees and their successors, full power to chuse, and at pleasure 
to displace, a President, Tutors, Professors, Treasurer, Clerk, Steward and Usher, 
with any other ministers and officers as are usual in any of the Universities or Col- 
leges in the realm of Great Britain. And also by the said Charter, is given to the 
major part of any seven or more 2 of the said Trustees and their successors, full 
power to make any laws, acts and ordinances, for the government of the said Col- 
lege, as are not repugnant to the laws and statutes of the realm of Great Britain, 
nor to the laws of the Province of New Jersey; provided, that no person be debarred 
any of the privileges of the said College on account of any speculative principles of 
religion; but those of every religious profession have equal privilege and advantage 
of education in the said College. And also by the said Charter, power is given to 
the major part of any seven of the said Trustees and their successors, by their 
President, or any other appointed by them, to give any such degrees as are given 
in any of the Universities or Colleges in the realm of Great Britain, to any such as 
they shall judge qualified for such degrees; and power to have and use a common 
seal to seal and confirm diplomas or certificates of such degrees, or for any other use 
which they shall think proper. 

And these may further notify all concern'd, that the said Trustees have chosen 
the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Dickinson, President, whose superior abilities are well known ; 
and Mr. Caleb Smith, Tutor, of the said College ; and that the College is now actually 
opened, to be kept at Elizabeth-Town, till a building can be erected in a more central 
place of the said 3 province for the residence of the students; that all who are quali- 
fied for it, may be immediately admitted to an academick education, and to such class 
and station in the College, as they are found upon examination to deserve; and that 
the charge of the College to each student, will be Four Pounds a year New Jersey 
money, at Eight Shillings per ounce, and no more. 

1 As in Gazette; omitted in Journal. 

2 As in Journal; omitted in Gazette. 
8 As in Gazette; omitted in Journal. 



Charter 



Note. 

The paragraphs that have been re- 
pealed are printed with stars at the 
beginning of the lines. Single words, 
or clauses, that have been altered or 
repealed are printed in italics. 



The Second Charter 

of the 

College of New Jersey. 

[September 14th, 1748.] 



George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, 
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc., to all to whom 
these presents shall come, greeting — 

Whereas sundry of our loving subjects, well-disposed and public- Pr amb i e 
spirited persons, have lately, by their humble petiton, presented to 
our trusty and well-beloved Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Governor and 
Commander in Chief of our province of New Jersey in America, rep- 
resented the great necessity of coming into some method for encour- 
aging and promoting a learned education of our youth in New Jersey, 
and have expressed their earnest desire that a college may be erected 
in our said province of New Jersey in America, for the benefit of the 
inhabitants of the said province and others, wherein youth may be 
instructed in the learned languages, and in the liberal arts and sciences. 
And whereas by the fundamental concessions made at the first settle- 
ment of New Jersey by the Lord Berkley and Sir George Carteret, 
then proprietors thereof, and granted under their hands and the seal 
of the said province, bearing date the tenth day of February, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty-four, it was, 
among other things, conceded and agreed, that no freeman, within the 
said province of New Jersey, should at any time be molested, punished, 
disquieted or called in question, for any difference in opinion or practice 
in matters of religious concernment, who do not actually disturb the 
civil peace of the said province; but that all and every such person or 
persons might, from time to time, and at all times thereafter, freely 

1 By authority of the General Act of the Legislature approved April 12th, 1894, 
page 38, and by action of the Board of Trustees taken February 13th, 1896, page 40, 
the corporate title of "The Trustees of the College of New Jersey" was on October 
22d, 1896, changed to "The Trustees of Princeton University." 



12 



CHARTER 



College 

founded 



Trustees a 
Corporation 



Corporate 
name 



Charter 
perpetual 



and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments and consciences, in 
matters of religion, throughout the said province, they behaving them- 
selves peaceably and quietly and not using this liberty to licentiousness, 
nor to the civil injury or outward disturbance of others, as by the said 
concessions on record in the Secretary's office of New Jersey, at Perth 
Amboy, in lib. 3, folio 66, etc., may appear. Wherefore and for that 
the said petitioners have also expressed their earnest desire that those 
of every religious denomination may have free and equal liberty and 
advantages of education in the said college, any different sentiments in 
religion notwithstanding, We being willing to grant the reasonable 
requests and prayers of all our loving subjects, and to promote a liberal 
and learned education among them — 

Know ye therefore, that we, considering the premises, and 
being willing for the future that the best means of education be estab- 
lished in our said province of New Jersey, for the benefit and advan- 
tage of the inhabitants of our said province and others, do, of our 
special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, by these presents, 
will, ordain, grant, and constitute, that there be a college erected in 
our said province of New Jersey, for the education of youth in the 
learned languages and in the liberal arts and sciences; 1 and that the 
trustees of the said college and their successors for ever, may and 
shall be one body corporate and politic, in deed, action and name, and 
shall be called, and named and distinguished, by the name of The 
Trustees of the College of New Jersey 2 and further, we have 
willed, given, granted, constituted, and appointed, and by this our 
present charter, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere 
motion, we do, for us, our heirs and successors, will, give, grant, 
constitute, and ordain, that there shall, in the said college, from hence- 
forth for ever, be a body politic, consisting of Trustees of the said 
College of New Jersey. And, for the more full and perfect erection 
of the said corporation and body politic consisting of Trustees of the 
College of New Jersey, we, of our special grace, certain knowledge, 
and mere motion, do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and suc- 



1 Extended by the Act of March nth, 1864. 

2 See foot-note 1 page n. 



CHARTER 



13 



Jersey, for the time being-, and also our trusty and well-beloved John 
cessors, create, make, ordain, constitute, nominate, and appoint, the 
Governor and Commander in Chief of our said province of New- 
Reading, James Hude, Andrew Johnston, Thomas Leonard, John 
Kinsey, Edward Shippen and William Smith, Esquires, Peter Van- 
Brugh Livingston, William Peartree Smith, and Samuel Hazard, gen- 
tlemen, John Pierson, Ebenezer Pemberton, Joseph Lamb, Gilbert 
Tennent, William Tennent, Richard Treat, Samuel Blair, David 
Cowell, Aaron Burr, Timothy Jones, Thomas Arthur, and Jacob 
Green, ministers of the gospel, to be Trustees of the said College of 
New Jersey. 

* That the said Trustees do, at their first meeting, after the re- 
ceipt of these presents, and before they proceed to any business, take 
the oath appointed to be taken by an act, passed in the first year 
of the reign of the late King George the First, entitled, "An act 
for the further security of his Majesty's person and government, 
and the succession of the crown in the heirs of the late princess 
Sophia, being protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the 
pretended prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors" ; as 

* also that they make and subscribe the declarations mentioned in 
an act of parliament, made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign 
of King Charles the Second, entitled, "An act for preventing dangers 
which may happen from popish recusants" ; and likewise take an 
oath for faithfully executing the office or trust reposed in them, the 
said oaths to be administered to them by three of his Majesty's 
justices of the peace, quorum unus; and when any new member 
or officer of this corporation is chosen, they are to take and sub- 
scribe the aforementioned oaths and declarations before their admis- 
sion into their trusts or offices, the same to be administered to them 

* in the presence of the Trustees, by such person as they shall appoint 

* for that service. 1 

That no meeting of the Trustees shall be valid or legal for doing 
any business whatsoever, unless the clerk has duly and legally notified 
each and every member of the corporation of such meeting; and that 



Names of 
corporators 



Oaths to be 
taken by 
Trustees 



By whom 
oaths are to 
be adminis- 
tered 



Notice of 
meeting of 
Trustees 



x The entire clause relative to oaths repealed and supplied by Act of March 13th, 
1780 ; and further amended by Act of March 29th, 1866. 



14 



CHARTER 



To fill 
vacancies 

Number of 
Trustees 



Residence 

Perpetual 
succession 



Property 



Limitation 
of value of 
estate 



before the entering on any business, the clerk shall certify such notifi- 
cation under his hand, to the Board of Trustees. 

That the said Trustees have full power and authority or any 
thirteen 1 or greater number of them, to elect, nominate, and appoint, 
and associate unto them, any number of persons as Trustees upon any 
vacancy, so that the whole number of Trustees exceed not twenty- 
three 2 whereof the President of the said college for the time being, 
to be chosen as hereafter mentioned, to be one, and twelve of the said 
Trustees to be always such persons as are inhabitants of our said 
province of New Jersey. And we do further, of our special grace, 
certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, 
will, give, grant, and appoint, that the said Trustees and their suc- 
cessors shall, for ever hereafter, be in deed, fact and name, a body 
corporate and politic; and that they, the said body corporate and 
politic, shall be known and distinguished in all deeds, grants, bargains, 
sales, writings, evidences, muniments, or otherwise howsoever, and in 
all courts for ever hereafter, plead and be impleaded, by the name of 
The Trustees of the College of New Jersey. 3 

And that they, the said corporation, by the name aforesaid, shall 
be able, and in law capable, for the use of the said college, to have, 
get, acquire, purchase, receive and possess lands, tenements, heredita- 
ments, jurisdictions, and franchises, for themselves and their suc- 
cessors, in fee simple or otherwise howsoever; and to purchase, receive 
or build, any house or houses, or any other buildings, as they shall 
think needful or convenient for the use of the said College of New 
Jersey, and- in such place or places in New Jersey, as they, the said 
Trustees shall agree upon, and also to receive and dispose of any 
goods, chattels, and other things of what nature soever, for the use 
aforesaid: and also to have, accept and receive, any rents, profits, 
annuities, gifts, legacies, donations and bequests, of any kind what- 
soever, for the use aforesaid, so, nevertheless, that the yearly clear 
value of the premises do not exceed the sum of two thousand pounds 



1 Altered to nine, provided that the Governor of the State, or the President of 
the College, or the senior Trustee, be one of the nine; by the Act of Nov. 2d, 1781. 

2 Altered to twenty-seven by the Act of April 6th, 1868. 

3 See foot-note * page it. 



CHARTER 



15 



sterling. 1 And therewith or otherwise to support and pay, (as the said 
Trustees and their successors, or the major part of such of them as 
[according to the provision herein afterwards] are regularly convened 
for that purpose, shall agree and see cause,) the President, tutors, and 
other officers or ministers of the said college, their respective annual 
salaries or allowances, and all such other necessary and contingent 
charges as from time to time shall arise and accrue, relating to the 
said college; and also to grant, bargain, sell, let, set or assign, lands, 
tenements or hereditaments, goods or chattels, contract or do all other 
things whatsoever, by the name aforesaid, and for the use aforesaid, 
in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, as any natural 
person or other body politic or corporate is able to do, by the laws of 
our realm of Great Britain, or of our said province of New Jersey. 
And to our further grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, to 
the intent that our said corporation and body politic may answer the 
end of their erection and constitution, and may have perpetual suc- 
cession and continue forever, We do for us, our heirs and successors, 
hereby will, give, and grant, unto the said Trustees of the College of 
New Jersey, and to their successors forever, that when any thirteen 2 
of the said Trustees, or of their successors, are convened and met 
together as aforesaid, for the service of the said college, the Governor 
and Commander in Chief of our said province of New Jersey, and in 
his absence, the President of the said college, and in the absence of the 
said Governor and President, the eldest Trustee present at such meet- 
ing, from time to time, shall be President of the said Trustees in all 
their meetings : and at any time or times such thirteen 1 Trustees con- 
vened and met as aforesaid, shall be capable to act as fully and amply, 
to all intents and purposes, as if all the Trustees of the said college 
were personally present ; provided always, that a majority of the said 
thirteen 1 Trustees be of the said province of New Jersey, except after 



1 Altered to the value of twenty thousand bushels of wheat by the Act of March 
13, 1780; to twenty thousand dollars, May 27, 1799; to one hundred thousand dollars, 
March 11, 1864; to five hundred thousand dollars, by resolution of the Trustees 
adopted June 17, 1889, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State, June 26, 1889, 
in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 27, 1889. 

1 See foot-note * page 14. 



Salaries 



Contracts 



Who to 
preside 



Quorum 



16 



CHARTER 



Majority of 
quorum to 
decide 



Meetings, 
how called 



Election of 
President 



Tutors and 
Professors 



Power of 
removal 



regular notice they fail of coming, in which case those that are present 
are hereby empowered to act, the different place of their abode not- 
withstanding; and all affairs and actions whatsoever, under the care 
of the said Trustees, shall be determined by the majority or greater 
number of those thirteen, 1 so convened and met together, the President 
whereof shall have no more than a single vote. 

And we do for us, our heirs and successors, hereby will, give 
and grant full power and authority, to any six or more of the said 
Trustees, to call meetings of the said Trustees, from time to time, and 
to order notice to the said Trustees of the times and places of meeting 
for the service aforesaid. 

And also we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, will, 
give and grant to the said Trustees of the College of New Jersey, 
and to their successors for ever, that the said Trustees do elect, 
nominate and appoint such a qualified person as they, or the major 
part of any thirteen 1 of them convened for that purpose as above 
directed, shall think fit, to be the President of the said college, and 
to have the immediate care of the education and government of such 
students as shall be sent to, and admitted into the said college, for 
instruction and education; and also that the said Trustees do elect, 
nominate and appoint so many tutors and professors, to assist the 
President of the said College, in the education and government of 
the students belonging to it, as they, the said Trustees, or their suc- 
cessors, or the major part of any thirteen 1 of them, which shall convene 
for that purpose as above directed, shall, from time to time, and at any 
time hereafter, think needful and serviceable to the interests of the 
said college; and also, that the said Trustees and their successors, or 
the major part of any thirteen 1 of them, which shall convene for that 
purpose, as above directed, shall at any time displace and discharge 
from the service of the said college such President, tutors and pro- 
fessors, and to elect others in their room and stead ; and also, that the 
said Trustees or their successors, or the major part of any thirteen 1 
of them, which shall convene for that purpose, as above directed, do 
from time to time, as occasion shall require, elect, constitute, and 



1 See foot-note 1 page 14. 



CHARTER 



17 



appoint a treasurer, a clerk, an usher, and a steward, for the said 
college, and appoint to them, and each of them, their respective busi- 
ness and trusts, and displace and discharge from the service of the 
said college such treasurer, clerk, usher, or steward, and to elect others 
in their room and stead; which President, tutors, professors, treasurer, 
clerk, usher, and steward, so elected and appointed, we do for us, our 
heirs and successors, by these presents constitute and establish in their 
several offices, and do give them, and every of them, full power and 
authority to exercise the same in the said College of New Jersey, 
according to the direction, and during the pleasure of the said Trustees, 
as fully and freely as any other the like officers in our universities or 
any of our colleges in our realm of Great Britain, lawfully may and 
ought to do. 

And also that the said Trustees, and their successors, or the 
major part of any thirteen 1 of them, which shall convene for that 
purpose as above directed, as often as one or more of the said Trustees 
shall happen to die, or by removal or otherwise shall become unfit or 
uncapable, according to their judgment, to serve the interest of the said 
college, do, as soon as conveniently may be after the death, removal 
or such unfitness or incapacity of such Trustee or Trustees to serve 
the interest of the said college, elect and appoint such other Trustee 
or Trustees as shall supply the place of him or them so dying, or 
otherwise becoming unfit or uncapable to serve the interest of the said 
college; and every Trustee so elected and appainted shall, by virtue 
of these presents, and of such election and appointment, be vested 
with all the power and privileges which any of the other Trustees of 
the said college are hereby invested with. 

And we do further, of our special grace, certain knowledge and 
mere motion, will, give and grant, and by these presents do, for us, 
our heirs and successors, will, give and grant unto the said Trustees 
of the College of New Jersey, that they and their successors, or the 
major part of any thirteen 1 of them, which shall convene for that 
purpose as above directed, may make, and they are hereby fully em- 
powered from time to time, freely and lawfully to make and establish 



Other officers 



Power of 
officers 



Election of 
Trustees 



Laws for the 
government 
of the college 



1 See foot-note * page 14. 



18 ' CHARTER 

such ordinances, orders and laws, as may tend to the good and whole- 
some government of the said college, and all the students and the 
several officers and ministers thereof, and to the public benefit of the 
same, not repugnant to the laws and statutes of our realm of Great 
Britain, or of this our province of New Jersey, and not excluding 
any person of any religious denomination whatsoever from free and 
equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of the liberties, 
privileges, or immunities of the said college, on account of his or their 
being of a religious profession different from the said Trustees of 
the said college; and such ordinances, orders, and laws, which shall 
be so as aforesaid made, we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs 
and successors, ratify, allow of, and confirm, as good and effectual, 
to oblige and bind all the said students and the several officers and 
ministers of the said college ; and we do hereby authorize and empower 
the said Trustees of the college, and the President, tutors, and pro- 
fessors, by them elected and appointed, to put such ordinances and laws 
in execution to all proper intents and purposes. 

Degrees And we do further, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and 

mere motion, will, give and grant unto the said Trustees of the 
College of New Jersey, that, for the encouragement of learning and 
animating the students of the said college to diligence, industry, and 
a laudable progress in literature, that they and their successors, or 
the major part of any thirteen 1 of them, convened for that purpose as 
above directed, do, by the President of the said college for the time 
being, or by any other deputed by them, give and grant any such 
degree and degrees to any of the students of the said college, or to any 
others by them thought worthy thereof, as are usually granted in either 

Diplomas Q £ our un i ve rsities or any other college in our realm of Great Britain 2 ; 

and that they do sign and seal diplomas or certificates of such gradua- 
tions, to be kept by the graduates as perpetual memorials or testi- 
monials thereof. 

And further, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere 
motion, we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give 
and grant unto the said Trustees of the College of New Jersey and to 

1 See foot-note 1 page 14. 

2 Extended by the Act of March 29th, 1866. 



Seal 



CHARTER 19 

their successors, that they and their successors shall have a common 
Seal, under which they may pass all diplomas, certificates of degrees, 
and all other the affairs and business of and concerning the said cor- 
poration, or of and concerning the said College of New Jersey, which 
shall be engraven in such form and with such inscription as shall be 
devised by the said Trustees of the said college, or the major part of 
any thirteen 1 of them, convened for the service of the said college as 
above directed. 

And we do further, for us, our heirs and successors, give and inferior officers 
grant unto the said Trustees of the College of New Jersey and their 
successors, or the major part of any thirteen 1 of them, convened for 
the service of the college as above directed, full power and authority 
from time to time, to nominate and appoint all other inferior officers 
and ministers, which they shall think to be convenient and necessary 
for the use of the college, not herein particularly named or mentioned, 
and which are accustomary in our universities, or in any of our colleges 
in our realm of Great Britain, which officers or ministers we do hereby 
empower to execute their offices or trusts as fully and freely as any 
other the like officers or ministers, in and of our universities or any 
other college in our realm of Great Britain, lawfully may or ought 
to do. 

And lastly, our express will and pleasure is, and we do by these 
presents for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said 
Trustees of the College of New Jersey and to their successors for 
ever, that these our letters patent, or the enrolment thereof, shall be 
good and effectual in the law, to all intents and purposes, against us, 
our heirs and successors, without any other license, grant or confirma- 
tion from us, our heirs and successors, hereafter by the said Trustees 
to be had or obtained ; notwithstanding the not reciting or misrecital, 
or not naming or misnaming of the aforesaid offices, franchises, privi- 
leges, immunities, or other the premises, or any of them : and not- 
withstanding a writ of ad quod damnum hath not issued forth to 
inquire of the premises or any of them, before the ensealing hereof; 
any statute, act, ordinance or provision, or any other matter or thing 

1 See foot-note * page 14. 



20 CHARTER 

to the contrary notwithstanding; to have, hold, and enjoy, all and 
singular the privileges,, advantages, liberties, immunities, and all other 
the premises herein and hereby granted and given, or which are 
meant, mentioned, or intended to be herein and hereby given and 
granted, unto them the said Trustees of the said College of New 
Jersey,and to their successors for ever. 

In Testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be 
made patent, and the Great Seal of our said province of New Jersey 
to be hereunto affixed. Witness our trusty and well-beloved Jona- 
than Belcher, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of our 
said province of New Jersey, this fourteenth day of September, in the 
twenty-second year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, one 
thousand seven hundred and forty-eight. 

I have perused and considered the written Charter of incor- 
poration, and find nothing contained therein inconsistent 
with his Majesty's interest or the honor of the Crown. 
(Signed) ' J. WARRELL, Att. Gen'l. 

September the 13th, 1748. — This Charter, having been read in 
Council, was consented to and approved of. 

(Signed) CHA. READ, CI. Con. 

Let the Great Seal of the Province of New Jersey be affixed to 
this Charter. 

(Signed) J. BELCHER. 

To the Secretary of the Province of New Jersey. 




Laws of New Jersey 

Establishing and Amending 

The Charter 

and otherwise relating to 

The University 



Index of Amendments 



PAGE 

I. Act of March 13, 1780 .' 23 

II. " " November 2, 1781 26 

III. " " November 20, 1786 27 

• iv. " " February 19, 1796 28 

V. " " May 27, 1799 29 

VI. " " March 11, 1864 32 

VII. " " March 29, 1866 33 

VIII. " " April 6, 1868 33 

IX. General Act relating to Corporations organized for Re- 
ligious, Benevolent and Educational Purposes, March 

27, 1889 33 

Resolutions of Trustees under Act of March 27, 1889. ... 35 
X. Supplement to Act to Incorporate Societies for the Pro- 
motion of Learning, April 12, 1894 36 

XL General Act authorizing Colleges and Universities to 
increase the number of their Trustees, February 18, 

XII. 



1901 



38 



General Act concerning Corporations organized for Re- 
ligious, Educational, Charitable or Benevolent Pur- 
poses, April 28, 1905 40 



Laws of New Jersey 
Establishing and Amending the Charter. 



i. 

* AN ACT for amending and establishing the Charter of the College 
of New Jersey. [March 13th, 1780.] 

* Whereas the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, 2 by their 

* humble petition presented to the legislature, have set forth, that his 

* majesty George the Second, King of Great Britain, by his royal 

* charter of incorporation, under the great seal of the then province Preamble 

* of New Jersey, and bearing date the fourteenth day of September, 

* in the twenty-second year of his reign, was pleased to incorporate 

* sundry persons, to the number of twenty-three, by the name and 

* style of "The Trustees of the College of New Jersey"; and did 

* thereby among other things, grant unto them power and authority 

* to erect, endow and govern a college for the instruction of youth 

* in the learned languages, and liberal arts and sciences, as by the said 

* charter of incorporation, recorded in the Secretary's office at Perth 

* Amboy, in book C, No. 2, pages 196 to 204, inclusive, reference 

* being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear: And 

* whereas the said Trustees, by their said petition, have prayed that 

* the same charter may be established and confirmed under the present 

* happy constitution, with certain alterations and amendments, in 

* their said petition mentioned and described : And whereas all wise 

* legislatures have deemed the education of youth to be of the utmost 

* importance to the prosperity of a State, and have taken institutions 

* for that purpose established under their patronage and protection : 

* And whereas the said College of New Jersey hath been found 

* greatly useful in diffusing as well the principles of political liberty, 

* as of religion and literature, and many have thereby been fitted to 



* Repealed and supplied by the Act of May 27th, 1799. 
3 See foot-note 1 page II. 



24 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



Charter, with 

exceptions, 

confirmed 



Trustees, their 
privileges, etc. 



Clause in 
charter 
respecting 
oaths, repealed 



* fill distinguished places, both in the civil and ecclesiastical depart- 

* ments of this and of the other United States, with advantage to the 

* community and honor and reputation to themselves : therefore, 

* for granting the prayer of the petition of the said Trustees, so far 

* forth as the same appears just and reasonable — 



I. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

* OF THIS STATE, AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY THE AUTHORITY OF 

* the same, That the said charter, with all and singular the advantages. 

* privileges and immunities, and all other matters and things therein 

* contained, such clauses and parts only excepted as are by this act 

* repealed, altered or amended, is hereby established and confirmed; 

* and shall for ever hereafter be held and esteemed as good and 

* effectual in law, to all intents, constructions and purposes, as the 

* same hath heretofore been held and esteemed, and as if the same 

* were herein particularly recited ; and misuser, non-user, or any other 

* default heretofore committed or suffered notwithstanding. 

* 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

* the said Trustees of the College of New Jersey, and their successors, 

* shall and may forever hereafter have, hold and enjoy, all and 

* singular the advantages, privileges and immunities, granted in the 

* said charter, and hereby confirmed unto them and their successors, 

* in as full, ample and beneficial a manner, as if the same were given 

* and granted to them by a law of this State, and as if every of the 

* said advantages, privileges and immunities, were in the said law 

* particularly enumerated and specified; any law, usage or custom, 

* relating to charters, notwithstanding. 

* 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

* the clause in the said charter directing and requiring the said 

* Trustees, and each of them, and every officer of the said corporation 

* by them appointed, to take the oath of allegiance to the king of 

* Great Britain and to make and subscribe the declaration as estab- 

* lished by act of parliament under the former government, be and 

* it hereby is repealed, discontinued, annulled and made void; and 

* in lieu thereof, such of the said Trustees or officers as are inhabi- 



* Repealed and supplied by the Act of May 27th, 1799. 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



25 



* tants of this State, and each of them, shall, at the next meeting of 

* the said corporation after the passing of this act, or before they 

* proceed further to execute their respective trusts and offices, take 
and subscribe the oaths or affirmations of allegiance and adjuration, 
as appointed and set forth in an act of the Council and General 
Assembly entitled, "An act for the security of the government of 
New Jersey," made and passed the nineteenth day of September, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six. 
to be administered by any one justice of the peace of this State; and 
such of them as are inhabitants of any other of the United States 
shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation of adjuration in 
manner as aforesaid, and shall also produce a certificate from some 
one justice of the peace of the State to which they may respectively 
belong, setting forth that they have taken the oath or affirmation 
of allegiance to the said State ; and when any new member or officer 
of the said corporation shall be chosen, he shall take and subscribe 

* the before mentioned oaths or affirmations, or take and subscribe 

* the oath or affirmation of abjuration, and produce the certificate as 

* aforesaid, before he is admitted to exercise his trust or office; the 

* said oaths or affirmations to be administered, in presence of the said 

* Trustees, by the President of the said corporation for the time being. 

* 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 

* said, That the said Trustees, and cheir successors, shall and may 

* hold and enjoy any estate whatsoever, the clear yearly value whereof 

* shall not exceed the value of twenty thousand bushels of wheat; 1 

* any article or clause in the said charter to the contrary notwith- 

* standing. 

* Passed at Trenton, March 13th, 1780. 



Oaths to be 
taken by 
trustees 



By whom 
oaths to be 
administered 



Limitation 
of estate 



1 See foot-note, p. 15. 



26 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



Preamble 



Nine to form 
a quorum 



II. 

* A SUPPLEMENTAL ACT to an Act entitled "An Act for amend- 

* ing and establishing the Charter of the College of New Jersey." 

[November 2d, 1781.] 

* Whereas the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, by their 

* petition to the legislature, have represented that, by their charter 

* of incorporation, the number of thirteen Trustees is necessary to 

* constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business relating to 

* the said institution, to the great injury of their trust, by reason of 

* the non-attendance of many of their members who live at a distance ; 

* and have prayed that the said quorum may be lessened; and have 

* also set forth that, notwithstanding the laws heretofore made and 

* provided, divers soldiers of the troops and militia of these United 

* States are often billeted and quartered in the buildings and their 

* appurtenances provided for the reception, convenience and improve- 

* ment of the students belonging to the said institution, to the great 

* injury and destruction thereof ; and as .it is thought reasonable, in 

* order to promote the ends of so valuable and important an institu- 

* tion, to grant the prayer of the petitioners- — - 

* i. be it therefore enacted by the council and general 

* Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the 

* authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this 

* act, it shall and may be lawful for any nine of the said Trustees, or 

* a greater number of them, to convene and meet together ; and being 

* so convened and met together, to form a board of the corporation 

* instituted by the said charter, and be in all things a sufficient quorum 

* for the doing, performing and transacting all and every the duties 

* and business of their said trust, to all intents and purposes whatever, 

* as effectually as if thirteen of the said Trustees had so met and 

* convened together for the purposes aforesaid, and shall, for and 

* during the continuance of this act, be taken and considered as a full 

* quorum of the said Trustees, in as full and ample manner, and with 

* the like powers, authorities, and interests as are given to and vested 

* in thirteen of the said Trustees, in and by their said charter of incor- 

* poration, and shall be under the same directions, conditions, restric- 

* tions, provisos, and limitations, as to the benefit, conveniency and 

* meetings of the said Trustees, as are contained in the said charter 



* This Act, made perpetual by the Act of November 20th, 1786, was repealed, and 
the first section supplied by the Act of May 27th, 1799. 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



27 



with respect to the quorum of thirteen Trustees aforesaid ; Pro- 
vided always, that the Governor of this State for the time being, 
or in case of his death or absence, the President of the said college 
for the time being, and in case of the death or absence of both the 
said Governor and President, then the eldest Trustee of the said col- 
lege, shall always be one of the said nine Trustees, so at any time 
constituting a quorum as aforesaid. 

* 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
from and after the passing hereof, if any magistrate, military officer, 
quartermaster, or any other person whatever, shall billet, quarter, 
or place in, or cause to be billeted, quartered, or placed in the said 
college or the steward's house adjoining thereto, any officer, soldier, 
or other person belonging to or following the troops or militia of 
these United States, or either of them, without the consent of the 
said Trustees, or of some person or persons duly authorized by them, 

* every such person so offending shall forfeit, to and for the use of 

* the said Trustees and their successors, the sum of twenty shillings 

* for every such officer, soldier or other person so billeted, quartered 

* or placed in the said buildings, and that for each and every day such 

* officer, soldier or other person aforesaid shall continue therein, the 

* same to be recovered by the said Trustees, or their lawful attorney 

* from the person so offending, together with the damages sustained 

* and costs of suit, by action of debt in any court where the same 

* may be cognizable. 

* 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

* this act, and every clause and article therein contained, shall continue 

* and be in force for the term of five years, and from thence to the end 

* of the next sitting of the General Assembly, and no longer. 

* Passed at Trenton, November 2d, 1781. 



Quorum, how 
constituted 



Troops not to 
be quartered 
in the college 



Penalty 



Limitation 



III. 

* AN ACT to continue an act entitled, "A supplemental act to an 

* act entitled, an act for amending and establishing the Charter of the 

* College of New Jersey." [November 20th, 1786]. 

* Whereas the act entitled, "A supplemental act to an act en- 

* titled, an act for amending and establishing the charter of the Col- 



* Repealed by Act of May 27th, 1799. 



Preamble 



28 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



Enacting 
clause 



* lege of New Jersey," passed at Trenton, the second day of No- 

* vember, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, will expire at 

* the end of the next sitting of the General Assembly; and it being 
represented that important and valuable purposes will be answered 
to that institution by a continuance of that act ; therefore — 

* Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of 
this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of 
the same, That the said recited act and every article and clause 
therein contained, except that part which limits the continuation 

* thereof, be and the same is hereby declared to be continued in full 

* force, anything in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. 

* Passed at Trenton, November 20th, 1786. 



Preamble 



Appropriation 
to college 



IV. 

AN ACT concerning the College of New Jersey. [February 19th, 1796]. 

Whereas it is the duty of a free and enlightened people to 
patronize and promote the interest of science and literature, as the 
surest basis of their liberty, property and prosperity : And Whereas 
it has been represented to the legislature, that the College of New 
Jersey has suffered great injury during the late war, in its buildings, 
library and philosophical apparatus, and that its funds, in consequence 
of the devastations and calamities of the war, have been so impaired and 
diminished as to render it impracticable for the Trustees of the college 
to defray the expenses necessarily incident to the business and good 
management of the institution without some legislative aid, and it 
appearing to the legislature that a portion of the public money may be 
wisely and usefully appropriated to the aid and relief of the said 
college; therefore — 

1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly 
of this State, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the 
same, That from and after the passing of this act, there shall be 
paid by the treasurer of this State, for three years successively, the 
sum of six hundred pounds, in quarter-yearly payments, to the Trus- 
tees of the College of New Jersey, or their order ; which sum shall be 



* Repealed by Act of May 27th, 1799. 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



29 



paid out of the interest on the loan-office money now in the treasury, 
or now due, or which hereafter may arise or become due on the loan- 
office money now in circulation; and the money so to be paid to the 
said Trustees, or their order, shall by them be laid out and appropriated 
to and for the repairs of the buildings of the college, its library, orrery, 
and philosophical apparatus. 

2. And be it further enacted, That the receipt of the said 
Trustees or their order, for so much money as may be received by 
them by virtue of this act, shall be a sufficient voucher for the treasurer 
of this State in the settlement of his accounts with the State. 

Passed at Trenton, February 19th, 1796. 



Vouchers 



AN ACT relative to the College of New Jersey. [May 27th, 1799.] 
Whereas, it appears that George the Second, King of Great 
Britain, by his charter of incorporation, bearing date the fourteenth Preamble 
day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
and forty-eight, did incorporate sundry persons, to the number of 
twenty-three, 1 by the name of "The Trustees of the College of New 
Jersey" ; and did thereby, among other things, grant unto them power 
and authority to erect, endow and govern a college, for the instruction 
of youth in the learned languages and liberal arts and sciences, as by 
the said charter of incorporation, recorded in the secretary's office in 
Book C, number 2, pages 196 to 204, inclusive, reference being there- 
unto had, may more, fully appear ; and whereas it is proper that the 
said charter, with certain alterations and amendments, should be 
established and confirmed under the present government; therefore — 

_ „ . Charter wn 

I. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY exceptions, 

OF THIS State, and it is hereby ENACTED by THE AUTHORITY OF confirmed 
the same, That the said charter, with the advantages, privileges and 
immunities, and all other matters and things therein contained, such 
clauses and parts only excepted as are by this act repealed, altered, or 
amended, is hereby established and confirmed ; and shall for ever here- 
after be held and esteemed as good and effectual in law, to all intents, 



1 See foot-note 2 p. 14. 



30 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



Trustees, their 
privileges 



Clause 
respecting 
oaths annulled 



Oaths to be 
taken by 
resident 
trustees and 
officers 



By whom to be 
administered 



Oaths to be 
taken by 
non-resident 
trustees and 
officers 



constructions and purposes, as the same hath heretofore been held and 
esteemed, and as if the same were herein particularly recited, any 
misuser, nonuser, or other default heretofore committed or suffered 
notwithstanding. 

2. And be it enacted, That the said Trustees of the College 
of New Jersey, and their successors, shall and may have, hold and 
enjoy all the advantages, privileges and immunities granted in the 
said charter and hereby confirmed unto them and their successors, 
in as full, ample, and beneficial a manner as if the same were given 
and granted by a law of this State, and as if the said advantages, 
privileges and immunities were, in the said law, particularly specified 
and enumerated, any law, usage, or custom relating to charters not- 
withstanding. 

3. And be it enacted, That the clause in the said charter, 
requiring every Trustee and officer of the said corporation to take and 
subscribe the oaths and declarations established by certain statutes of 
Great Britain, be and it hereby is revoked and annulled. 

* 4. And be it enacted, That if any person, being an inhabitant 

* of this State, shall be elected a Trustee or officer of the corporation, 

* he shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take and sub- 

* scribe the oath to support the Constitution of the United States and 
the oath of allegiance to this State prescribed by law, which oath 
any member of the said corporation is hereby authorized to admin- 
ister; and if any person being an inhabitant of any other of tht 
United States, shall be elected a Trustee or officer of the said cor- 

* poration, he shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, 

* produce a certificate from some justice of the peace of the State in 

* which he resides, setting forth that he hath taken the oath to 

* support the Constitution of the United States and the oath of 

* allegiance to the said State ; and further, that it shall be lawful for 

* any member of the said corporation to administer the oath of office 

* to the person so elected. 

5. And whereas the said corporation have represented that by 
their charter, thirteen members are requisite to constitute a quorum, 



* Repealed and supplied by Act of March 29th, 1866. 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



31 



Nine to consti- 
tute a quorum 



to the great injury of the institution and their trust, by reason of the 
non-attendance of members who live at a distance, and have prayed 
that the said quorum may be lessened : Be it therefore enacted, 
That any nine or more of the Trustees of the said college, when duly 
convened, shall constitute a quorum, and be competent to perform and 
execute all the duties, business, matters, and things of the said cor- 
poration, as fully and effectually as if thirteen of them had so convened, 
and shall have the like powers, authorities, and interests, as by the said 
charter are given to and vested in thirteen of the said Trustees or 
members, when duly convened ; and shall be under the same directions, 
regulations, conditions, restrictions, provisos and limitations, as to 
the benefit, conveniency and meetings of the said corporation, as are Proviso 
contained in the said charter with respect to the quorum of thirteen 
Trustees or members; provided always, that the Governor of this 
State for the time being, or in case of his death or absence, the Presi- 
dent of the said college for the time being, and in case of the death or 
absence of both the said Governor and President, then the senior 
Trustee of the said college shall always be one of the said nine Trustees 
so at any time constituting a quorum as aforesaid. 

6. And be it enacted, That the said Trustees of the College of 
New Jersey, and their successors, may have, hold, and enjoy any estate 
whatsoever, the clear yearly value whereof shall not exceed twenty 
thousand dollars. 1 

7. And be it enacted, That the act entitled, "An act for amend- 
ing and establishing the charter of the College of New Jersey," passed 
the thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and eighty, and the act entitled, "An act to continue an 
act entitled a supplemental act to an act entitled an act for amending 
and establishing the charter of the College of New Jersey," passed 
the twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and eighty-six, be and they are hereby repealed. 

Passd at Trenton, May 27th, 1799. 



Limitation of 
value of estate 



Repealing 
clause 



1 See foot-note, p. 15. 



32 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



Preamble 



Object 



May receive 
and hold gifts 
and grants 



Limitation of 
value of estate 



VI. 
AN ACT further to amend the Charter of the College of New Jersey, 
being a supplement to an act entitled, " An act relative to the College of 
New Jersey." [March nth. 1864]. 

Whereas, It is represented on behalf of the Trustees of the 
College of New Jersey that they deem it important and desirable that 
the original intention and design of the founders of the college in 
establishing an institution for the promotion of religion, as well as the 
advancement of learning, should be distinctly recognized and estab- 
lished by law, and that it is necessary for the educational, charitable 
and other purposes of the institution, that the value of the property 
which the Trustees are authorized to hold should be increased; there- 
fore — 

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

of the State of New Jersey, That the design and object of the said 
corporation is hereby declared to be the promotion of religion and the 
advancement of learning, by the instruction of youth in religious truth, 
as well as in the learned languages, and in the liberal arts and sciences, 
and that the said corporation shall always be an institution for the 
purposes specified in this act. 

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Trustees 
of the College of New Jersey to take and receive by gift, grant, devise, 
or purchase, and to have, hold, and enjoy for the uses and purposes 
of the said corporation, including the tuition and support of indigent 
young men, any real and personal estate, the clear yearly income 
whereof shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, 1 provided 
always,, that whenever any property or estate shall be given, granted, 
or devised to them upon any special trust, or for any special use or 
purpose not incompatible with the object and design of said corpora- 
tion as above declared, that such property or estate shall be held and 
appropriated by them in strict accordance with the trust, uses, and 
limitations in such grants and devises respectively mentioned and set 
forth. 

Passed at Trenton, March nth, 1864. 



Altered to five hundred thousand dollars, June 26th, 1889. See foot-note, p. 15. 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 



33 



VII. 
A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to the Charter of the College of New 
Jersey. [March 29th, 1866. J 

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

of the State of New Jersey, That if any person shall be elected a 
Trustee or officer of said corporation he shall, before he enters upon 
the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation faith- 
fully and impartially to perform the duties of his office ; an oath to sup- 
port the Constitution of the United States ; and the oath of allegiance 
to the State in which he resides; and that the said oaths may be ad- 
ministered by any member of said corporation. 

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for said college 
to confer any degrees granted by any other college or university. 

3. And be it enacted, That the fourth section of the supple- 
ment passed May twenty-ninth, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, be, 
and the same is hereby, repealed. 

Passed at Trenton, March 29th, 1866. 



Oaths to be 
taken by trus- 
tees and officers 



Degrees 



Repealing 
clause 



VIII. 

AN ACT further to amend the Charter of the College of New Jersey. 

[April 6th, 1868.] 

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

OF the State of New Jersey, That the number of Trustees of the 
College of New Jersey may be increased to twenty-seven whenever 
the Board of Trustees shall by vote of two-thirds determine upon such 
increase. 

2. And be it enacted,, That this act shall take effect imme- 
diately. 

Passed at Trenton, April 6th, 1868. 



Number of 
trustees may 
be increased 



IX. 
AN ACT to authorize corporations organised for religious, educational 
or benevolent purposes to procure an increase in their capacity to acquire 
and hold real and personal property. [March 27, 1899] 

I. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

of the State of New Jersey, That whenever any corporation of this 
State, incorporated for religious, educational or benevolent purposes, 



34 LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 

shall, by its charter or any supplement thereto, or otherwise, be limited 
in the amount or value of real or personal property which it may 
acquire, have, hold and enjoy for the use and purposes of such cor- 
poration, and the board of trustees, directors or managers of such 
corporation shall desire to obtain for such corporation legal capacity 
to acquire, have, hold, use and enjoy a larger amount than that to 
which it is or shall be so limited, that it shall be lawful for such trus- 
tees, directors or managers at any stated meeting of said board, and 
from time to time, to adopt by vote of a majority of the whole number 
^of such trustees, directors or managers, a resolution declaring their 
desire to have the amount so enlarged, and stating the amount to which 
it is to be so increased, and to cause a copy of such resolution, authen- 
ticated and verified as by this act directed, to be filed in the office of 
the secretary of state. 

2. And be it enacted, That the copy of the resolution author- 
ized by the first section of this act to be filed with the secretary of state, 
shall be certified and authenticated under the common seal of said 
corporation, and shall be verified by the oath of the clerk or secretary 
of said corporation that the seal affixed to said copy is the common seal 
of said corporation, that the said copy is a true copy of the original 
resolution as recorded on the minutes of said board, and that it was 
passed as directed in the first section of this act. 

3. And be it enacted, That on filing said copy of such resolu- 
tion in the office of the secretary of state, it shall be thereafter lawful 
for the said corporation to take and receive by gift, grant,- devise, 
bequest or purchase, and to have, hold and enjoy for the uses and 
purposes of the said corporation any real or personal estate not ex- 
ceeding the increased amount named in said resolution, any provision 
of the charter of said corporation or any supplement thereto, to the 
contrary notwithstanding. 

4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be a public act and 
shall take effect immediately. 

Approved March 27th, 1889. . . 



LAWS AMENDING THE CHARTER 35 

preamble and resolution adopted by a majority of the whole 
number of the trustees of the college of new 
jersey, june i/th, 1 889. 
Whereas, The Trustees of the College of New Jersey, 
a corporation of the State of New Jersev, incorporated for educa- 
tional purposes, by a supplement to their charter, are limited in the 
value of the real and personal property they may lawfully acquire, 
have, hold and enjoy for the uses and purposes of said incorporation, 
to an amount the clear yearly income whereof shall not exceed one 
hundred thousand dollars; which said sum is totally inadequate to 
meet the urgent and imperative needs of the corporation : Therefore 
be it — 

Resolved, That it is, and by this resolution it is declared to be 
the desire of the said Trustees to obtain the legal capacity to take, 
acquire, have, hold and enjoy a larger amount of real and personal 
property than that to which they are so limited as aforesaid; to wit, 
an amount that shall yield a clear yearly income of five hundred thou- 
sand dollars. 

I, Elijah R. Craven, Clerk of the Trustees of the College of New 
Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing preamble and resolution 
were, at a stated meeting of the Board of Trustees of the College of 
New Jersey, held at Princeton, New Jersey, on the 
seventeenth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and 
eighty-nine, adopted by vote of a majority of the whole 
number of said Trustees. 

(Signed) E. R. CRAVEN, 

Clerk of The Trustees of The College 
of Nezv Jersey. 
AFFIDAVIT OF THE CLERK OF "THE TRUSTEES OF THE 
COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY." 
[June 26, 1889.] 
State of New Jersey, jj. 

Be it known that on this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and 
eighty-nine, before me, one of the masters of the Court of Chancery of the State of 
New Jersey, personally appeared Elijah R. Craven, who being by me duly sworn upon 
his oath saith — that he is the Clerk of "The Trustees of the College of New Jersey" ; 
that the seal affixed to the foregoing resolution is the common seal of said corpora- 
tion; that said resolution is a true copy of the original resolution as recorded in the 
minutes of said Board of Trustees; and that said original resolution was passed as 




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directed in the first section of an act entitled, "An Act to authorize corporations 
organized for religious, educational or benevolent purposes to procure an increase of 
their capacity to acquire and hold real and personal property," approved March 
27th, 1889. 

(Signed), LEWIS PARKER, 

Master in Chancery of N. J 
ENDORSED. "Filed June 26, 1889, 

HENRY C. KELSEY, 

Secretary of State." 

CERTIFICATE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 
State of New Jersey, 
department of state. 

I, Henry C. Kelsey, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby 
certify that the foregoing is a true copy of resolution adopted by "The Trustees 
of the College of New Jersey" to procure an increase of capacity to acquire 
and hold real and personal property as the same is taken from and compared with 
the original (filed June 26, 1889), and now remaining on file in my office. 
5-22££&> In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed 

my Official Seal, at Trenton, this First day of July, A. D. 1890. 




(Signed), HENRY C. KELSEY, 

Secretary of State. 



Incorporated 
institutions of 
learning may 
change 
corporate 
name 



Proviso 



X. 

GENERAL ACT. 

A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT entitled, " An Act to Incorporate 
Societies for the Promotion of Learning." (Revision), approved April 
ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. [April 12, 1894]. 

I. BE IT ENACTED BY THE 'SENATE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for any associa- 
tion, seminary, college or other institution of learning now or hereafter 
organized under and by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, 
or any other act now in force in this State, whether created by special 
charter or otherwise, to change its corporate name by a two-thirds 
vote of the board of trustees or managers of such association, semi- 
nary, college or other institution of learning who shall be present at a 
regular or special meeting of the same, called for that purpose; pro- 
vided, that said corporation cause to be made and filed a certificate in 
writing, in manner hereinafter mentioned; such certificate shall set 
forth, first, the name of said association, seminary, college or other 
institution of learning in use immediately preceding said vote and 



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making and filing of said certificate ; second, the new name assumed to 
designate such corporation and to be used in its business and dealings 
in the place and stead of that referred to in the last preceding para- 
graph, and which said certificate shall be signed by said board of 
trustees or managers, or a majority thereof, and filed and recorded in 
the office of the clerk of the county where the principal office or place 
of business of such corporation in this State shall be established ; and 
after being so recorded shall be filed in the office of the secretary of 
state, without fee or costs ; and to which said certificate shall be affixed 
the official seal of said board of trustees or managers, and the affidavit 
of the secretary or acting secretary of said board that the said certifi- 
cate is made by the authority of the board of trustees or managers of 
such corporation, as expressed by a two-thirds vote of the members 
present at a regular or special meeting of said board called for that 
purpose. 

2. And be it enacted, That no change in the name of any 
corporation, under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed effected 
until the said certificate, made and recorded as aforesaid, shall be 
actually filed in the office of the secretary of state, as herein directed ; 
but no such change shall in any manner lessen or impair any liability 
of such corporation incurred or existing at the time such change of 
name shall be made, which liability shall continue and be capable of 
being enforced against such corporation by its name as so changed, 
or by its original name ; and no suit pending at the time of such change 
of name shall abate by reason thereof, but the same may be prosecuted 
to judgment and execution in the original name of such corporation, 
and under such execution the property of said corporation, whether 
held by its original or amended name, may be levied on and sold to 
satisfy such judgment. 

3. And be it enacted, That all acts and part of acts inconsis- 
tent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this 
act shall take effect immediately. 

Approved April 12, 1894. 

CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF CORPORATE NAME. 
(February 13th, 1896.) 

The Trustees of the College of New Jersey, a college corporation, 
being an institution of learning organized under and by virtue of 



Certificate shall 
set forth new 
name and be 
filed and 
recorded in 
county clerk's 
office 



And also 
secretary of 
state's office 



Shall be 
verified by 
official seal and 
affidavit 



No change of 
name shall be 
effectual until 
conditions are 
complied with 



Existing 
liabilities not 
to be impaired 



Repealer 



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Letters Patent of his Majesty George the Second, King of Great 
Britain, France and Ireland, granted and issued by Jonathan Belcher, 
Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of New- 
Jersey, September fourteenth, 1748, and established by acts of the 
Legislature of New Jersey, now in force in this State, doth hereby 
certify that at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of said 
corporation, called (among other things) for the purpose of changing 
the corporate name of said College or Institution of learning, the 
said Board of Trustees, by a two-thirds vote of the members present at 
said meeting, resolved to change the name of said corporation to "The 
Trustees of Princeton University" ; and to that end the said corpora- 
tion doth certify and set forth : 

(1.) That the name of said corporation in use immediately preceding 
the said vote, and the making and filing of this certificate, was 
"The Trustees of the College of New Jersey." 
(2.) The new name assumed to designate said corporation, and to 
be used in its business and dealings in the place and stead of 
that mentioned in the last preceding paragraph, is "The Trus- 
tees of Princeton University." 

In Witness Whereof, the said The Trustees of the 
College of New Jersey, hath caused the official seal 
of said Board of Trustees, being also the common 
seal of said corporation, to be hereunto affixed; and 
the undersigned, being a majority of said Board of 
Trustees, have hereunto set their signatures, all this 
thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. 




FRANCIS L. PATTON, President. 



E. R. CRAVEN, 

HENRY M. ALEXANDER, 

WILLIAM M. PAXTON, 

JOHN A. STEWART, 

JOHN HALL, 

W. HENRY GREEN, 

CHARLES E. GREEN, 

THOMAS N. McCARTER, 

S. BAYARD DOD, 

J. ADDISON HENRY, 

M. TAYLOR PYNE, 



JAMES W. ALEXANDER, 
F. B. HODGE, 

d. r. frazer, 
john k. cowen, 
george b. stewart, 
cyrus h. Mccormick, 
m. w. jacobus, 

W. J. MAGIE, 
EDW. T. GREEN, 
JOHN J. McCOOK, 
JOHN DIXON. 



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State of New Jersey, 

County of Mercer, 
ss. : 

Elijah R. Craven, Secretary (otherwise known and designated 
as Clerk) of the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, being duly 
sworn, on his oath says : That the foregoing certificate is made by 
authority of the Board of Trustees of said corporation, as expressed 
by a two-thirds vote of the members present at a regular meeting of 
said Board, called (among other things) for that purpose. 

E. R. Craven. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 
thirteenth day of February, A. D. 1896. 

E. C. Osborn, 
: Notary Public. 

Received in the office of the Clerk of the County of Mercer, State 
of New Jersey, on the 27th day of May, A. D. 1896, and recorded in 
Book C. of Corporations for said County, page 369. 

Filed in the office of the Secretary of State, October 22d, 1896. 

H. C. Kelsey, 

Secretary. 
XI. 
GENERAL ACT. 

An Act to authorize Colleges and Universities to increase the num- 
ber of their Trustees, and providing for the election of such additional 

Trustees. [February 18, 1901], 

i. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly 
of the State of New Jersey : It shall be lawful for any college or 
university now or hereafter organized, whether created by special 
charter or organized under any general law of this state, to increase 
the number of trustees constituting the Board of Trustees of such 
college or university; provided, that such increase shall be approved 
by a two-thirds vote of the trustees present at any regular meeting of Provi 
the existing board of trustees of such college or university, or at a 
special meeting of said board called for the purpose of voting upon 
such proposed increase in the number of said trustees; provided fur- 
ther, that the term or terms of service of such additional trustees, the 
mode of electing them and the rules and regulations pertaining to the 



Number of 
Trustees 



Proviso 



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Proviso 



Resolutions 
filed with 
Secretary of 
State 



Lawful to 
increase or 
abolish such 
trustees 



election and to the term or terms of service of the additional trustees, 
including the abolition or discontinuance of election of said trustees at 
any time after the same shall have been instituted, shall be under the 
control and determined by a two-thirds vote of all the members for the 
time being of the board of trustees of such college or university; and 
provided further, that before this act shall apply to any college or 
university, and before any such institution shall have the right to 
make regulations for the election of additional trustees, the said col- 
lege or university shall cause a copy of the resolution or resolutions 
of the board of trustees accepting the provisions of this act, and pro- 
viding for the election of additional trustees, to be authenticated and 
verified, as by this act directed, and filed in the office of the secretary 
of state. 

2. A copy of the resolution or resolutions authorized by the 
first section of this act, to be filed with the secretary of state, shall be 
certified and authenticated under the common seal of said corporation 
and shall be verified by the affidavit of the clerk or secretary of said 
corporation, setting forth that the seal affixed to the said copy is the 
common seal of said corporation ; that the said copy is a true copy of 
the original resolution or resolutions, as recorded in the minutes of 
said board of trustees, and that such resolution or resolutions were 
passed as prescribed by the first section of this act. 

3. On filing such copy of said resolution or resolutions in the 
office of the secretary of state, it shall be lawful for the corporation to 
increase the number of trustees constituting the board of trustees of 
said corporation, and to provide for the terms of service, the mode of 
election and all rules and regulations pertaining to the election or the 
term or terms of service of the additional members of said board of 
trustees, including the abolition or discontinuance of the election of 
such trustees at any time after the same shall have been instituted, 
upon the vote of a majority of the trustees present at any regular 
meeting of the board of trustees of said corporation, or at a special 
meeting of said board called for the purpose of voting upon the aboli- 
tion or discontinuance of the election of such trustees. 

4. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved February 18, 1901. 



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RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF THE WHOLE 
NUMBER OF THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNI- 
VERSITY, MARCH 14TH, 1901. 

Resolved, That the Trustees of Princeton University hereby 
accept the provisions of the Act of the Legislature of the State of 
New Jersey, entitled, "An Act to authorize colleges and universities to 
increase the number of their trustees, and providing for the election 
of such additional trustees," approved February 18, 1901 (Chapter 
No. 8 of the Laws of 1901 ), and each and every provision of said Act. 

Resolved, That when and as soon as a copy of these resolutions, 
certified and authenticated as required by the provisions of said Act, 
shall have been filed wtih the Secretary of the State of New Jersey, 
there shall be elected five additional trustees of the University under 
and in accordance with the regulations adopted by this Board, pur- 
suant to and in conformity with the provisions of section 3 of said Act. 

I, Elijah R. Craven, Clerk of The Trustees of Princeton Univer- 
sity, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of resolutions 
adopted by the Board of Trustees of said University at a regular 
meeting of said Board held at Princeton, New Jersey, on the four- 
teenth day of March, 1901. 

(Signed) ELIJAH R. CRAVEN, 

Clerk of the Trustees of Princeton University. 

AFFIDAVIT OF THE CLERK OF "THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON 

UNIVERSITY." 
State of New Jersey, 

County of Mercer. 
ss.: 

Elijah R. Craven, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says: — 
That he is the Clerk of the Trustees of Princeton University, that the foregoing is 
a copy of resolutions duly adopted by said Board of Trustees; that the seal affixed 
to the said copy is the common seal of said corporation ; that the said copy is a true 
copy of the original resolutions as recorded in the minutes of said Board of Trustees, 
and that such resolutions were passed as prescribed by the first section of an 
Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled "An Act to authorize 
colleges and universities to increase the number of their trustees, and providing for 
the election of such aditional trustees," approved February 18, 1901 ; that is to say, 
that the increase of the number of trustees constituting the Board of Trustees of 
said University was approved by a two-thirds vote of the Trustees present at a 



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regular meeting of the existing Board of Trustees of Princeton University, held at 
Princeton, New Jersey, on the fourteenth day of March, 1901. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this Fourteenth day of March, 1901. 

JOHN W. FIELDER, Jr., 

Notary Public. 
ENDORSED. "Filed March 18, 1901, 

GEORGE WURTS, 

Secretary of State." 

CERTIFICATE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 
State of New Jersey, 
department of state. 

I, George Wurts, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby 
certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of resolutions adopted by "The Trustees 
of Princeton University," accepting the provisions of Chapter 8, of. the Laws of 
1901 and the endorsements thereon, as the same is taken from and compared with 
the original filed in my office on the 18th day of March, A. D. 1901, and now 
remaining on file therein. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my 

Official Seal, at Trenton, this Fourth day of March, A. D. 1902. 

(Signed) GEORGE WURTS, 

Secretary of State. 



Religious, etc., 
corporations 
may acquire, 
hold, dispose, 
etc., of property. 



Act as 
Trustee. 



XII. 

GENERAL ACT. 

AN ACT concerning corporations of this state organized for relig- 
ious, educational, charitable or benevolent purposes. 

Be it enacted ey the Senate and General Assembly of the 
State of New Jersey : 

1. Every corporation of this state organized for religious, edu- 
cational, charitable or benevolent purposes under the provisions of any 
act of the legislature of this state, general, special or private, is hereby 
authorized to take and hold by purchase, gift, devise, bequests or 
otherwise, for any religious, educational, charitable or benevolent pur- 
poses whatsoever, such real or personal property, or both, as such cor- 
poration may require, or as, in any manner, may have been or may be 
vested in such corporations for any or all of such purposes, and to 
grant, bargain, sell or convey the same ; and every such corporation is 
further authorized to take and hold in trust for any religious, educa- 
tional, charitable or benevolent purposes whatsoever, such real or per- 
sonal property, or both, as, in any manner, may have been or may be 
given, granted, conveyed, bequeathed or devised to, or otherwise 



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vested in such corporation in trust for any of said purposes, and to 
grant, bargain, sell and convey property so held or to be held in trust 
for any such purposes, in accordance with the terms of the gift, grant, 
conveyance, bequest, devise or instrument creating such trust or trusts, 
respectively. 

2. Any and all property, real or personal, heretofore given, 
granted, conveyed, bequeathed or devised to, or otherwise vested in 
any such corporation in trust for any religious, educational, charitable 
or benevolent purpose, shall, so far as the same may not have already 
been applied in the execution of such trust, continue to be held and 
applied by such corporation in accordance with the terms of the gift, 
grant, conveyance, bequest, devise or instrument creating such trust 
in the same manner and with the same force and effect as if such cor- 
poration were originally duly authorized to act in the capacity of trus- 
tee in the premises, provided that such trust, otherwise than in the 
designation of the trustee, is valid under the laws of this state. 

3. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved April 28, 1905. 



Trust to 
continue. 



By-Laws 

Adopted March 9, 1899 



Index of By-Laws 



PAGE 

I. Of the Trustees Generally 47 

II. Of Meetings of the Board 48 

III. Of Officers of the Corporation 49 

IV. Of the Presiding Officer 49 

V. Of the President of the University 50 

VI. Of the Clerk , 50 

VII. Of the Dean of the Faculty 51 

VIII. Of the Dean of the Graduate School 51 

IX. Of the Treasurer 52 

X. Of the Secretary 53 

XI. Of the Curator of Grounds and Buildings 54 

XII. Of the Librarian 56 

XIII. Of the Registrar 56 

XIV. Of the Faculty 57 

XV. Of the Standing Committees of the Board 58 

XVI. Of the Committee on Finance 59 

XVII. Of the Committee on Grounds and Buildings 60 

XVIII. Of the Committee on the Library and Apparatus 61 

XIX. Of the Committee on the Curriculum 61 

XX. Of the Committee on Morals and Discipline 62 

XXI. Of the Committee on Honorary Degrees 62 

XXII. Of the Committee on the Graduate School 63 

XXIII. Of the Committee on Faculty Minutes 63 

XXIV. Of Honorary Degrees 63 

XXV. Of Academic Costume 64 

XXVI. Of the Order of Business 66 

XXVII. Miscellaneous 67 



By-Laws 

OF THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. 
[provisions of the charter are printed in small capitals.] 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE TRUSTEES GENERALLY. 

i. The Board shall be composed as follows: 

1. the Governor of the State and the President of the 
University during their respective official terms. 

II. twenty-five Life Trustees who shall hold office 

DURING THEIR NATURAL LIVES, SAVE IN CASE OF RESIGNATION, IN- 
CAPACITY OR REMOVAL BY THE BOARD. 

III. five Alumni Trustees who shall serve for the re- 
spective TERMS TO WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN ELECTED BY THE 
ALUMNI. 

2. Of the entire Board, twelve shall be inhabitants of 
the State of New Jersey. 

3. Each Trustee, before entering upon the duties of his 
office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation 
faithfully and impartially to perform the duties of his 
office, an oath to support the constitution of the united 
States, and an oath of allegiance to the State in which he 
resides. The oaths shall be taken in the presence of the 
Board, and may be administered by any member of the corpo- 
ration. 

4. Of the Life Trustees eight at least shall be clergymen and 
twelve at least laymen, save when, for reasons of expediency, it may 
be proper to alter this proportion, in which case the proportionate 
numbers shall be restored as soon as practicable. 



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5. When a vacancy occurs among the Life Trustees a new 
Trustee shall be elected by ballot by a majority of the Board. When 
a vacancy occurs among the Alumni Trustees a new Trustee shall 
be elected for the balance of the term, by the duly enrolled graduates at 
the next annual election. 

6. If any Trustee shall be absent from four consecutive stated 
meetings of the Board, his seat shall be regarded as vacated, save by- 
a special vote of the Board to the contrary. 

7. The term of office and method of election of Alumni Trus- 
tees, and all matters relating to the office, including the discontinu- 
ance of the same, shall be under the control of and determined by a 
majority of the Board. 

CHAPTER II. 

OF MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. 

1. There shall be four Stated Meetings of the Board in each 
year; the first on the day preceding Commemoration day; the second 
on the second Thursday in December ; the third on the second Thurs- 
day in March, and the fourth on the Monday preceding the annual 
Commencement. 

2. Special Meetings shall be held upon the requisition 
of six Trustees made upon the Clerk. This requisition shall 
specify the object or objects for which the meeting is called, and such 
object or objects shall be stated by the Clerk in his notice of the meet- 
ing; and no business shall be transacted at such special meeting other 
than that specified in the requisition and mentioned in the notice. 

3. Any nine or more of the Trustees, when duly con- 
vened, SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUORUM, AND BE COMPETENT TO PER- 
FORM AND EXECUTE ALL THE DUTIES AND BUSINESS OF THE CORPORA- 
TION, PROVIDED ALWAYS, THAT THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE FOR 
THE TIME BEING, OR IN CASE OF HIS DEATH OR ABSENCE, THE PRESI- 
DENT of the University for the time being; or in case of the 
death or absence of both the governor and president, the 
senior Trustee of the University shall always be one of the 
said nine Trustees so at any time constituting the quorum 
as aforesaid : but in case of the absence of the Governor, the 



BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 49 

President and the senior Trustee, then thirteen members 
shall constitute a quorum. 

4. no meeting of the trustees shall be valid or legal 
for the transaction of any business whatever, unless the 
Clerk of the Board has duly and legally notified each and 
every member of the corporation of such meeting; and before 
their entering upon any business, the clerk shall certify 
such notification, under his hand, to the board. 

5. The Clerk shall give notice of each meeting of the Board at 
least one week before the appointed time thereof. 

6. Any number convened at the time of a meeting, less than a 
quorum and more than two, may adjourn from time to time, for a 
period of three days; after which time they may adjourn to a period 
not less than one week distant, of which adjourned meeting due notice 
shall be given by the Clerk. 

7. Each meeting of the Board shall be opened with prayer. 

8. When in session, the Trustees shall sit, in order of seniority, 
beginning at the right hand of the President. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF THE OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION. 

i. The officers of the Corporation shall be the President of the 
Board, the President of the University, the Clerk, the Dean of the 
Faculty, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Treasurer, the Secre- 
tary, the Curator of Grounds and Buildings, the Librarian, the Regis- 
trar, and such other officers as the Board may deem it expedient to 
appoint. 

2. These officers, with the exception of the President of the 
Board shall be elected by ballot by a majority of the Board, 

SHALL CONTINUE IN OFFICE DURING THE PLEASURE OF THE BOARD. 
AND SHALL RECEIVE SUCH COMPENSATION AS THE BOARD MAY DIRECT. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF THE PRESIDING OFFICER. 

i. The Governor of the State of New Jersey shall be, 
ex officio, President of the Board, and in his absence the Presi- 



50 BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 



dent of the university shall preside, and in the absence of 
the Governor and the President, the senior Trustee present 
at any meeting, shall preside. 

2. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Officer to observe the 
order of business and enforce the rules of order. 

CHAPTER V. 

of the president of the university (in his relation to the 

board). 

1. The President shall preside on all public occasions and 
represent the University before the public. 

2. He shall be charged with the general supervision of the inter- 
ests of the University and shall have special oversight of the various 
departments of instruction in the University. 

3. It shall be his duty to sign all obligations and contracts 
entered into by or on behalf of the Board, unless otherwise provided 
by these By-Laws, and to sign all diplomas and certificates of gradua- 
tion. 

4. He shall have the custody of the Seal of the University and 
shall affix the same to such instruments as require its use. 

5. At the stated meeting of the Board in December he shall 
present a printed report on the condition, progress and policy of the 
University, which shall include reports to him by such of the Univer- 
sity officers as may, in the judgment of the Board, be deemed best. 

CHAPTER VI 

OF THE CLERK. 

i. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to notify the 
Trustees of all meetings and to certify the fact of such 
notice having, been given, at the opening of each meeting of 
the Board. 

2. He shall sign all diplomas and certificates of graduation and 
all legal papers requiring the signature of the Clerk as an officer of 
the Corporation, and shall make public announcement of all degrees 
in course at the time they are conferred. 



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3. In case of the death, absence, or disability of the Clerk, 
the Secretary of the University shall be, ex officio, Clerk of the Board. 

CHAPTER VII. 

OF THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY. 

1. The Dean of the Faculty shall be charged with the oversight 
of the discipline of the University, and to this end he shall be a member 
ex officio, of the Committee on Morals and Discipline. The Curator 
of Grounds and Buildings shall report to him upon questions of dis- 
cipline so far as they may come under his notice; and the Proctors 
shall be subordinated to him as well as to the President of the Univer- 
sity, and shall report to him on all matters relating to the deportment 
of the students. 

2. He may assign rooms in the dormitories to such members of 
the Faculty and to such Fellows as he may see fit, subject to the ap- 
proval of the Committee on Grounds and Buildings. 

3. He shall report in writing to the Committee on Morals and 
Discipline, before the October and March meetings of the Board, on 
the state of discipline in the University and on all matters relating 
thereto. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

OF THE DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL. 

i. The Dean of the Graduate School shall be responsible for the 
conduct of the Graduate School and shall have the oversight of Gradu- 
ate Students and Fellows. He shall have charge of the graduate 
courses and degrees for graduate study, and of the work done in semi- 
naries, laboratories and elsewhere, in so far as it is of graduate char- 
acter, but excluding technical and professional subjects. 

2. He shall consult the President of the University on all mat- 
ters of importance affecting the Graduate School, and shall submit all 
proposed measures to the President and Trustees for their sanction. 
To this end he shall be a member, ex officio, of the Committee on the 
Graduate School and shall submit a written report to the Committee 



52 BY-LAWS OF. THE TRUSTEES 

before the December and Commencement meetings of the Board. He 
shall present to the University Faculty an annual report showing the 
condition and work of the Graduate School for the preceding year. 

3. He shall select a committee from the University Faculty to 
act as his advisers, and in the absence of the President shall preside at 
the meetings of the committee. 

CHAPTER IX. 

OF THE TREASURER. 

1. The Treasurer shall, under the direction of the Committee 
on Finance, have charge and control of the securities and funds of 
the Corporation. 

2. All letters addressed to Princeton University or in a general 
way to the offices of the University shall be referred to him. 

3. He shall sign receipts and acknowledgments for all monies of 
the Corporation, and shall disburse the monies under the direction of 
the Committee on Finance. 

4. He shall deposit the funds of the University, in the corporate 
name of the University, in such banks or trust companies as the 
Committee on Finance shall direct ; which funds shall not be drawn out 
except by cheques signed by him, and, when for sums exceeding two- 
thousand dollars, such cheques shall be countersigned by a member of 
the Committee on Finance, or by some other person specially desig- 
nated by the Committee on Finance for that purpose. 

5. He shall render a full and particular statement of his cash 
accounts, accompanied by vouchers, to the Committee on Finance at 
least one week prior to each meeting of the Board and an inventory 
of the investments of the Corporation to the same Committee at least 
one week prior to the December meeting. 

6. His books shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspec- 
tion of members of the Committee on Finance. 

7. He may be authorized by the Board to employ necessary 
assistants when the funds of the University permit. 

8. He shall give bonds for the faithful performance of his 
duties, in such amount as the Board shall direct. 

9. He shall, before the October meeting of the Board, present 



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to the Committee on Finance a budget, showing the estimated receipts 
and disbursements of the University for the current fiscal year. 

CHAPTER X. 

OF THE SECRETARY. 

i. The Secretary shall have charge of the general correspond- 
ence of the University under the supervision of the President. 

2. He shall have charge of the publication and distribution of 
the University Catalogue, and of such other University publications 
as may be referred to him by the President or the Board. 

3. He shall be, ex officio, Secretary of the Board, and shall keep 
full minutes of all meetings, and at each stated meeting shall present 
the minutes of the last preceding meeting or meetings for the ap- 
proval of the Board. When such minutes shall have been approved 
by the Board they shall be entered in a book of minutes. 

4. He 'shall have the custody and preparation of all diplomas of 
the University, as well as of certificates of graduation. 

5. He shall be the custodian of the Charter of the University, 
of the minute books and papers relating to the records of the Univer- 
sity, and of the bond of the Treasurer. 

6. He shall notify, by letter, all persons elected or appointed to 
office by the Board, and shall notify those upon whom it has been voted 
to confer Honorary Degrees. 

7. As soon as possible, after each meeting, he shall transmit to 
the President, the Deans, the Treasurer, the Curator, the Clerk of the 
Faculty, and the Chairman of each Standing and Special Committee, 
all papers, matters, resolutions, or business that may have been re- 
ferred to them respectively. 

•8. He shall, when he gives notice to the Chairman of a Special 
Committee of the duties required by resolution of the Board, request 
such Chairman to inform him of the meeting of the Committee. If 
within two weeks of the meeting of the Board he shall not have been 
informed of the meeting of a Committee whose Chairman has been 
notified, he shall again notify such Chairman. 

9. At least one week before each stated meeting he shall trans- 
mit to each member of the Board a printed copy of the docket of the 
business that will come before said meeting. 



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CHAPTER XL 

OF THE CURATOR OF GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 

1. The Curator of Grounds and Buildings shall be the Resident 
Executive of the Committee on Grounds and Buildings. 

2. He shall, under the direction of the Committee on Grounds 
and Buildings, have charge and control of the real estate belonging to 
the University; and he shall be responsible for the proper care and 
maintenance of the same. 

3. He shall, subject as aforesaid, and subject also to such other 
Committee or Committees having supervision of the same, have charge 
and control of, and be responsible for, the proper care and maintenance 
of all the personal property belonging to the University, except the 
securities and funds, the apparatus and specimens belonging to the 
several departments of instruction and the books in the Library. 

4. He shall, subject to said supervision, have sole charge of all 
repairs to the grounds and buildings belonging to the University, and 
shall be responsible for the keeping of the same in repair and in good 
order. All requests for repairs, or work of any kind, shall be made 
to him in writing, and be signed by the person making the request, 
upon blanks which the Curator shall furnish for the purpose; and he 
shall enter such requests in a book to be kept for the purpose, with 
the date of the request, the action taken upon it, and the date of such 
action. 

5. He shall make no alteration in any building, or in any part 
of the grounds, and shall take no action in reference to the personal 
property confined to his care, unless he shall first obtain the consent of 
the Committee having charge of the same. 

6. No alteration shall be made in any building belonging to the 
University, by any one, except under the direction of the Curator. 

7. He shall, subject to the aforesaid supervision, have sole 
charge of the sewerage and drainage of the University grounds and 
buildings. 

8. He shall, subject to the aforesaid direction, have sole 
charge and responsibility of the lighting and heating apparatus of the 
University; shall make all contracts for lighting and the purchase of 
coal and other fuel; shall have sole charge and management of the 



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water supply of the University; shall audit all bills for labor and 
materials furnished the University in his department, and shall make 
all contracts for work to be done on the grounds and buildings, except 
for new buildings otherwise provided for. 

9. The employment, oversight and direction of all servants of 
the University shall be committed to him. 

10. He shall keep under constant inspection the grounds and 
buildings belonging to the University, and be responsible that the 
former are kept in good order, and that the rooms, entries, cellars, 
roofs, and every other part of said buildings, are kept clean and in 
good repair, and that snow is early removed whenever the same is 
necessary. 

11. Upon receiving from the Sanitary Committee of the Faculty 
any written opinion or suggestion referring to the health of the Uni- 
versity, he shall forthwith communicate the same to the proper Com- 
mittee having the subject in charge. 

12. Whenever in his opinion any student should be removed 
from a room, either in a house in town or in a University dormitory, 
for what to the Curator seems a proper cause, he shall report the 
same to the Dean of the Faculty for the action of the Faculty. 

13. He shall assess students and employees of the University 
for damage to University property, and should any student refuse to 
pay the amount assessed, he shall at once report the fact to the Dean 
of the Faculty for the action of the Faculty. 

14. Whenever any dereliction of duty on the part of any em- 
ployee of the Unjversity shall be reported to him by the President, 
Dean of the Faculty, a professor, student, or other person, he shall 
promptly examine the matter and take such steps as the case warrants. 

15. He shall, at the beginning of every fiscal year, present to 
the Committee on Finance an estimate in writing of every expense 
which will probably arise in his department during the ensuing year. 

16. He shall decide in what houses, outside of the University 
dormitories, students may room and board. In no case shall he permit 
a student to reside or board in a house, if the Sanitary Committee of 
the Faculty notify him in writing that they object to such house. 

17. He shall adopt such a system as will enable him to know at 
once if there is a case of illness in any University dormitory, or in any 



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house in which students reside, and shall immediately report to the 
Chairman or Secretary of the Sanitary Committee of the Faculty. 

1 8. He shall, within a reasonable time after receiving any writ- 
ten opinion or suggestion from the Sanitary Committee of the Faculty, 
inform the Chairman of said Committee, in writing, what action has 
been taken in reference to such opinion or suggestion. 

19. He shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to 
him by the Board and the several Committees. 

CHAPTER XII. 

OF THE LIBRARIAN. 

1. Members of the Library staff holding rank equivalent to that 
of members of the Faculty shall be elected by ballot, by a majority of 
the Board. 

2. The Librarian shall, under the direction of the Committee 
on the Library and Apparatus, have charge and control of the Library 
buildings and their contents, and shall be responsible for the safe 
keeping and proper care of same. 

3. Before the October meeting of the Board, he shall report to 
the Committee on the Library and Apparatus on the condition of the 
Library; the amounts expended for purchase of books, periodicals, 
etc. ; and for binding, cataloguing, etc. ; the accessions by purchase 
and donation ; and the circulation and other use of books. 

4. Of the annual revenue of the Elizabeth Fund for the purchase 
of books, he shall expend two-thirds under the direction of the Library 
Committee of the Faculty, and one-third at his own discretion, sub- 
ject, however, to the approval of the Committee on the Library and 
Apparatus. 

CHAPTER XIII. 

OF THE REGISTRAR. 

1. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep the record of 
the examinations and standing of the students, and to report the same 
twice in each year to their parents or guardians. 

2. He shall keep the record of the attendance of each student 



BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 57 

upon the University exercises and take such action thereon as the 
regulations pertaining to students require. 

3. He shall conduct such correspondence with the parents and 
guardians, concerning the attendance and scholarship of students, as 
the Faculty or its Committees may instruct, or as the circumstances 
of each case may require. 

4. He shall conduct the correspondence relating to the admis- 
sion of students to the University. 

CHAPTER XIV. 

OF THE FACULTY. 

i. The University Faculty shall consist' of the President of the 
University, the Deans, the Professors, Assistant Professors and 
Preceptors. The University Faculty shall be divided into two sub- 
Faculties, to be designated respectively, the Academic Faculty and the 
Scientific Faculty. The Academic Faculty shall consist of the Pro- 
fessors, Assistant Professors and Preceptors, whose duties pertain 
wholly, or in the main, to the Academic Department, and the Scientific 
Faculty shall consist of the Professors, Assistant Professors and Pre- 
ceptors, whose duties pertain wholly, or in the main, to the John C. 
Green School of Science. The proceedings of the sub-Faculties shall 
be regularly reported to the University Faculty, and in all ordinary 
cases the action of each sub-Faculty, in respect to the admission, stand- 
ing and discipline of students, shall be final. 

2. Professors, Assistant Professors and Preceptors shall be 
elected by ballot by a majority of the Board. 

3. Instructors, Lecturers, Assistants and Demonstrators shall 
be appointed by the President of the University subject to the approval 
of the Board, and shall have the privilege of sitting with the Faculty, 
but shall not be entitled to vote. 

4. Officers of instruction shall not substitute or appoint any one 
to perform their duties in the class-room without the approval, in each 
case, of the President of the University. 

5. The University Faculty and the sub-Faculties shall keep 
books of minutes, which books shall be laid before the Committee on 
Faculty Minutes before the Commencement meeting of the Board. 



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6. The University Faculty may, before each stated meeting of 
the Board, elect, by ballot, three Professors, two from the Academic 
and one from the Scientific Faculty, who shall attend and present to 
the Board the views of the Faculty on matters pertaining to the in- 
struction, order and government of the University. 

CHAPTER XV. 

OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD. 

i. The Board, at the Commencement meeting, shall choose, by 
ballot, the members of the following eight Standing Committees, each 
one of which (including the ex officio members thereof) shall consist 
of not more than nine members, who shall hold office for one year and 
until others are appointed in their place : 
i. The Committee on Finance. 

The Committee on Grounds and Buildings. 

The Committee on the Library and Apparatus. 

The Committee on the Curriculum. 

The Committee on Morals and Discipline. 

The Committee on Honorary Degrees. 

The Committee on the Graduate School. 

The Committee on Faculty Minutes. 

2. The President of the University shall be, ex officio, Chairman 
of the Committee on Honorary Degrees and a member of the other 
Standing Committees. The Dean of the Faculty shall be, ex officio, 
a member of the Committee on Morals and Discipline, and the Dean of 
the Graduate School shall be, ex officio, a member of the Committee on 
the Graduate School. 

3. At the March meeting of the Board in each year the Presiding 
Officer shall appoint a committee of five members of the Board, to 
whom may be presented suggestions for changes in the composition of 
the several Standing Committees. This Committee shall report at the 
June meeting its recommendations as to the constitution of each 
Standing Committee for the year following. 

4. Each Committee, except the Committee on Honorary De- 
gress, shall be empowered to elect its own Chairman, and no Trustee, 
other than the President of the University, shall be a member of 



BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 59 

more than three of these Committees, and no Trustee shall be Chair- 
man of more than one Standing Committee. If a Trustee be elected 
as Chairman of more than one Standing Committee, he shall have the 
privilege of selection. 

5. The Committees on Finance and on Grounds and Buildings 
shall meet at least four times a year, and the other Standing Commit- 
tees shall meet before those meetings of the Board at which a report is 
to be made. Each Standing Committee shall meet at such other times 
as may be ordered by the Board, and the Chairman of a Committee 
shall always call a meeting of the Committee on the requisition of the 
President of the University, or of three members of the Board. One 
week's notice of each meeting shall be given, except that in cases of 
emergency, meetings of the Committees on Finance, Grounds and 
Buildings or Morals and Discipline may be called upon shorter notice. 

6. Any number, not less than three, shall constitute a quorum 
for the transaction of business. 

7. Each Standing Committee shall report in writing to the 
Board, and the reports shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting. 

8. The Chairman of each Committee having a report to make 
shall be in readiness to report at the opening of the meeting of the 
Board. 

CHAPTER XVI. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 

1. The Committee on Finance shall have charge and control 
of the funds and securities of the Corporation. 

2. They shall keep a careful oversight of the investments of the 
Corporation, and shall report to the Board their judgment as to the 
investment of the funds, and the changes that should be made. 

3. Should any funds accrue during an interim of the Board they 
shall have power to invest the same, making a report of such invest- 
ment at the next stated meeting. 

4. If at any time during an interim of the Board they should 
deem it essential to the interests of the University that a change of 
investments be made, they shall have the power to make such change 
and to direct the transfer, if the investments to be changed are in 



60 BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 

registered securities, and they shall always report the fact of such 
change and the reason thereof to the Board at its next stated meeting. 

5. Whenever the interest upon any security of the University 
shall become overdue they shall proceed to collect the same. 

6. They shall see that no contracts are made for the payment 
of money, unless the money is arranged for beforehand; and no dis- 
tinct fund shall be borrowed from, for any other use than that for 
which it is designated, save by vote of the Board. 

7. They shall, at least once a year, examine the securities of the 
Corporation, and report the result of such examination to the Board. 

8. They shall designate in writing to the Treasurer in what 
banks or trust companies the cash of the Corporation shall he de- 
posited, and in what depository the securities of the same shall be kept. 

9. They may designate a person to sign the cheques of the Cor- 
poration with the Treasurer, as provided for in Chapter IX., Article 4. 

10. Expenditures authorized by any of the Standing Commit- 
tees shall not be made until it be certified by the Committee on Finance 
to the Treasurer that there is money available for that purpose. 

11. They shall appoint an expert accountant, who shall care- 
fully audit the accounts of the Treasurer, verify his statements, and 
report upon the same to the Committee at least once in each year, 
which report, together with the Treasurer's Report, the Committee 
shall present to the Board at the stated meeting in October. 

12. They shall report at the October and December meetings 
of the Board and may report at any other stated meeting. 

CHAPTER XVII. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 

i. The Committee on Grounds and Buildings shall have charge 
and control of the real estate and personal property belonging to the 
University, except as mentioned in Chapter XVIII., Article 1. 

2. They shall instruct the Curator of Grounds and Buildings as 
to what repairs are necessary, and shall give him such power as they 
think necessary to enable him to attend to the care and repairs of the 
real estate, buildings and furniture. 



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3. They shall have charge and control of all servants of the 
University, and shall instruct the Curator of Grounds and Buildings 
as to their number and compensation. 

4. They shall be responsible that the Curator of Grounds and 
Buildings takes care of all matters in their department, and keeps the 
buildings, fences, drains, walks and furniture in proper condition. 

5. They may authorize the Curator of Grounds and Buildings 
to act in cases where delay would work an injury. 

6. They shall report at the October meeting of the Board and 
may report at any other stated meeting. 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY AND APPARATUS. 

1. The Committee on the Library and Apparatus shall have 
charge and control of the Library buildings and their contents, the 
historical collections and all the apparatus and specimens belonging 
to the several departments of instruction. 

2. They shall have supervision of the Library, shall prescribe the 
times of opening and closing the same, and shall authorize the pur- 
chase of books in conformity with the By-Laws relating to the Libra- 
rian. 

3. It shall be their duty to see that none of the property under 
their charge is lost or needlessly injured ; and they shall hold the 
Librarian, Professors and Instructors, having charge of the same, to 
strict accountability in the premises. 

4. The purchase of all new and movable property, chemicals 
and apparatus, and all repairs of the same, shall be authorized by the 
Committee, to the extent only of the appropriations made by the Board. 

5. They shall report at the October meeting of the Board. 

CHAPTER XIX. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CURRICULUM. 

1. The Committee on the Curriculum shall have supervision of 
the studies pursued in the University. 

2. They shall assign the duties of the Professors, Assistant 
Professors and Preceptors and Instructors. 



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3. They shall receive from the Faculty the names of candidates 
for Degrees in Course, and report to the Board the names of whom 
they recommend for such Degrees. 

4. They shall report at the March and Commencement meetings 
of the Board, and at such other meetings as may be necessary. 

5. No appointments involving additional expenditure for sal- 
aries shall be proposed by the Committee on the Curriculum unless 
presented to the Committee on Finance for their consideration at least 
two weeks before the meeting of the Board at which confirmation is 
desired. 

CHAPTER XX. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON MORALS AND DISCIPLINE. 

1. The Committee on Morals and Discipline shall acquaint them- 
selves thoroughly with the plans for discipline pursued in this and 
other Universities, and shall suggest to the Trustees and Faculty such 
plans as may, in their opinion, be of advantage to the University. 
Before the October and March meetings of the Board they shall con- 
fer with the Dean of the Faculty regarding the discipline of the 
University and make a report to the Board thereon. 

2. They may be consulted by the Faculty in devising the best 
methods for managing the discipline and as to preserving the morals 
of the University. 

3. They shall report at the October and March meetings of the 
Board and at such other stated meetings as may be necessary. 

CHAPTER XXI. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON HONORARY DEGREES. 

i. All nominations for Honorary Degrees made at a meeting of 
the Board shall be referred to the Committee on Honorary Degrees 
to be investigated and reported upon to the Board, unless otherwise 
ordered by the unanimous vote of the members present, in number not 
less than a majority of the entire Board. 

2. The Committee shall, on recommending a person for a par- 
ticular Degree, set forth in writing the special qualifications possessed 
by him which seem to them to entitle him to the honor. 

3. They shall report at the December and March meetings of the 
Board. 



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CHAPTER XXII. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE GRADUATE SCHOOL. 

i. The Committee on the Graduate School shall have supervi- 
sion of the Graduate Students, Fellowships, Graduate Courses and 
Degrees for graduate study, and of the work done in Seminaries, 
Laboratories and elsewhere, in so far as it is of graduate character, 
but excluding technical and professional subjects. 

2. They shall report at the December and Commencement meet- 
ings of the Board. 

CHAPTER XXIII. 

OF THE COMMITTEE ON FACULTY MINUTES. 

I. The Committee on Faculty Minutes shall, before the Com- 
mencement meeting of the Board, examine the minutes of the Faculties 
and present a report upon the same to the Board at that meeting. 

CHAPTER XXIV. 

OF HONORARY DEGREES. 

1. All nominations for Honorary Degrees shall be made in 
writing, setting forth the full name of the nominee, his place of resi- 
dence, and the name of the Trustee making the nomination. 

2. The Secretary shall keep, in retentis, a list of nominations for 
Honorary Degrees that lie over, with the date of each nomination, and 
the name of the person making such nomination, and also the Report 
of the Committee on Honorary Degrees on the nomination. The 
names of those nominees upon whom it shall not have been voted to 
confer Degrees within one year after the Committee on Honorary 
Degrees shall have reported upon them shall be stricken from the list. 

3. Nominees for Honorary Degrees may be voted upon by ballot 
at any stated meeting of the Board, but no such Degree shall be con- 
ferred save at the annual Commencement or on Commemoration day 
and only when the candidate is present to receive it, nor shall any 



64 BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 

Degree be then conferred unless it be accompanied with a public state- 
ment of the reasons for which it is given. 

4. The Board shall not vote to confer an Honorary Degree on 
any one not recommended by the Committee on Honorary Degrees, 
except by a three-fourths vote of all the members of the Board. 

5. The Board shall not vote to confer the Degree of LL.D., D.D. 
or L.H.D, at the stated meetings at which the nomination of the can- 
didate is made, save by the unanimous vote of the members present, in 
number not less than a majority of the entire Board. At the following 
stated meeting, however, the Board may vote to confer such Degrees 
by the affirmative votes of a majority of the entire Board, in the case 
of one recommended by the Committee on Honorary Degrees; or, in 
the case of one not so recommended, by a three-fourths vote of the 
entire Board. 

CHAPTER XXV. 

OF ACADEMIC COSTUME. 

i. The following academic costume is permitted to be worn by 
members of the Board and of the Faculty and by other Officers and 
the Graduates of the University, upon all appropriate University occa- 
sions, such as the public exercises of Commemoration day, of Com- 
mencement week and whenever they appear officially in public. 

Gowns. i. Pattern. Those commonly worn, with pointed 
sleeves for the Bachelor's Degree, with long, closed sleeves for the 
Master's Degree, and with round, open sleeves for the Doctor's De- 
gree. 2. Material. Worsted stuff for the Bachelor's Degree, silk for 
the Master's and Doctor's Degrees. 3. Color. Black. 4. Trim- 
mings. For the Bachelor's and Master's Degrees the gowns are to be 
untrimmed. Far the Doctor's Degree the gown is to be faced down 
the front with black velvet, with bars of the same across the sleeves ; 
or the facings and crossbars may be of velvet of the same color as the 
binding or edging of the hood, being distinctive of the Faculty to 
which the Degree pertains. 

Hoods, i. Pattern. The pattern usually followed by Colleges 



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and Universities, save as modified below. 2. Material. The same 
as that of the gown. 3. Color. Black. 4. Length. The length 
and form of the hood shall indicate the Degree as follows : For the 
Bachelor's Degree, the length shall be three-fourths that of the Mas- 
ter's Degree. The hood for the Master's Degree shall be of the cus- 
tomary length, not exceeding four feet; and that of the Doctor's 
Degree shall be of the same length but have panels at the sides. 5. 
Linings. The hoods shall be lined with the official colors of Princeton 
— Orange and Black. 6. Trimmings. The binding or edging, not 
more than six inches in width, to be of silk, satin or velvet, the color 
to be distinctive of the Faculty to which the Degree pertains, thus : 
Faculty of Arts and Letters, white. Faculty of Theology, scarlet. 
Faculty of Law, purple- Faculty of Medicine, green. Faculty of 
Philosophy, dark blue. Faculty of Science, gold yellow. Faculty of 
Fine Arts, brown. Faculty of Music, pink. 

Caps. The caps shall be of the material and form generally 
used, and commonly called mortar-board caps. The color shall be 
black. The Doctor's cap may be of velvet. Each cap shall be 
ornamented with a long tassel attached to the middle point at the top. 
The tassel of the Doctor's cap may be, in whole or in part, of gold 
thread. 

Members of the Governing Body of the University shall be en- 
titled, during their term of office, to wear the gown of highest dignity 
— that of the Doctor's Degree — together with the hood appropriate 
to the Degree which they may have severally received. Members of 
the Faculties, and any person officially connected with the University 
who have been recipients of academic honors from other universities 
or colleges in good standing, may assume the academic costume corres- 
ponding totheir Degree, as described in the foregoing section, provided, 
that such right shall terminate if such persons shall cease to be con- 
nected with the University. The President and the Deans may adopt 
distinctive badges, not inconsistent with the costume hereinbefore de- 
scribed. 



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CHAPTER XXVI. 

OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

i. A printed docket shall be placed before the Board by the 
Secretary at each stated meeting. The general schedule shall be as 
follows : 

I. Organization with Prayer. 
II. Reading of the Clerk's Certificate. 

III. Reading, correction, and approval of Minutes. 

IV. Clerk's Report. 

V. President's Report. 

VI. Reception of Committee from the Faculty. 
VII. Nomination for Honorary Degrees. 
VIII. Reports of Committees : 
i. Finance. 

2. Grounds and Buildings. 

3. Library and Apparatus. 

4. The Curriculum. 

5. Morals and Discipline. 

6. Honorary Degrees. 

7. Graduate School. 

8. Faculty Minutes. 

9. Special Committees. 
IX. Miscellaneous Business. 

X. Balloting on Nominees for Honorary Degrees. 
XI. Appointment of next meeting. 
XII. Adjournment with prayer. 

2. Other matters may be placed upon the docket as they arise, 
or by special order of the Board. 

3. The order of business prescribed in the docket shall not be 
departed from, unless by a vote of the Board upon motion. 

4. Whenever a matter requiring the action of a Committee shall 
arise, it shall be referred to the Standing Committee having charge 
of the subject, unless by special order of the Board. 

5. Committees shall, in all cases, report to the Board in writing. 
Should a Standing Committee fail thus to report, such failure shall be 



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entered in the record book of the Committee, with the reasons thereof, 
and noted upon the minutes of the Board. 

6. Those entrusted with the awarding of fellowships and prizes 
shall report to the Board, through the Secretary, on the first day of 
the meeting, except in cases where the competition takes place during 
the session of the Board. 

CHAPTER XXVII. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

1. No resolution shall be considered by the Board, unless it be 
first put in writing and delivered to the Secretary. 

2. No change in these By-Laws shall be made, save by a vote of 
two-thirds of the entire Board at the stated meeting at which the pro- 
posed change is made, or by a majority vote of the members present 
at a stated meeting subsequent to a meeting at which notice of pro- 
posal to change such By-Law shall have been given (and no change 
shall be made in Chapter XXIV., Article 5, at a meeting at which a 
change is proposed, save by a unanimous vote of the members present, 
in number not less than a majority of the entire Board). The opera- 
tion of these By-Laws shall not be changed or suspended save by the 
unanimous vote of the members present, in number not less than a 
majority of the entire Board. 

3. All resolutions of the Board, inconsistent with these By- 
Laws, are hereby repealed. 

4. All proceedings of the Board, the debates, and every part of 
the. business transacted at its meetings, shall be considered as confi- 
dential, and shall not be divulged, except officially or when permitted 
by the Board. 

5. The Commencement Arrangements shall be under the direc- 
tion of a Committee of the Trustees, who shall be authorized to add to 
their number from the Faculty or otherwise. 



Rules of Order 



Rules of Order 



OF THE 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. 



i. The Presiding Officer shall take the chair precisely at the 
hour to which the Board stands adjourned; and shall immediately 
call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall 
open the session with prayer. 

2. The business shall be taken up and disposed of in the order 
prescribed in the By-Laws. 

3. The Presiding Officer may speak to points of order, in prefer- 
ence to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose ; and shall 
decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Board by any 
two members. 

4. If the Presiding Officer desires to discuss any question he 
shall leave the chair for that purpose, and shall call the senior member 
of the Board present to take the chair. 

5. When a vote is taken by ballot, the Presiding Officer shall 
vote with the other members ; but he shall not vote in any other case, 
unless the vote be equally divided; when, if he do not choose to vote, 
the question shall be lost. 

6. A motion made must be seconded, and afterwards repeated 
by the Presiding Officer or read aloud, before it is debated. 

7. Any member who shall have made a motion, shall have liberty 
to withdraw it, with the consent of his second, before any debate has 
taken place thereon; but not afterwards, without the leave of the 
Board. 

8. If a motion under debate contains several parts, any member 
may have it divided, and a vote taken on each part. 

9. When various motions are made, with respect to the filling 
of blanks with particular numbers or times, the questions shall always 
be first taken on the highest number and the longest time. 



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10. Motions to lay on the table, to take up business, to adjourn, 
and the call for the previous question, shall be put without debate. On 
questions of order, postponement, or eommitment, no member shall 
speak more than once ; on all other questions each member may speak 
twice, but not oftener without express leave of the Board. 

1 1 . When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received 
unless to adjourn, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to post- 
pone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend ; which several motions 
shall have precedence in the order in which they are herein arranged ; 
and the motion of adjournment shall always be in order. 

12. An amendment, and also an amendment to an amendment, 
may be moved on any motion ; but a motion to amend an amendment 
to an amendment shall not be in order. Action on amendments shall 
precede action on the original motion. 

13. A distinction shall be observed between a motion to lay on 
the table for the present, and a motion to lay on the table uncondition- 
ally, viz. : A motion to lay on the table for the present shall be taken 
without debate; and, if carried in the affirmative, the effect shall be to 
place the subject on the docket, and it may be taken up and considered 
at any subsequent time. But a. motion to lay on the table uncondi- 
tionally, shall be taken without debate; and, if carried in the affirma- 
tive, it shall not be in order to take up the subject during the same 
meeting of the Board without a vote of reconsideration. 

14. The previous question shall be put in this form, namely: 
"Shall the main question be now put ?" It shall be admitted only when 
demanded by a majority of the members present, and the effect shall 
be to put an end to all debate and bring the body to a direct vote — first, 
on the motion to commit the subject under consideration (if such 
motion shall have been made) ; secondly, if the motion for commitment 
does not prevail, on pending amendments; and, lastly, on the main 
question. 

15. A question shall not be again called up or considered at the 
same meeting of the Board at which it has been decided, unless by 
consent of two-thirds of the members who were present at the decision, 
and unless the motion to reconsider be made and seconded by persons 
who voted with the majority. 



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1 6. When the Presiding Officer has commenced taking the vote, 
no further debate or remarks shall be admitted, unless there has evi- 
dently been a mistake, in which case the mistake shall be rectified and 
the Presiding Officer shall recommence taking the vote. 

17. The yeas and nays on any question shall not be recorded 
unless required by one-third of the members present. 

18. No member, in the course of the debate, shall be allowed to 
indulge in personal reflections. 

19. If more than one member rise to speak at the same time, the 
member who is most distant from the Presiding Officer's chair shall 
speak first. 

20. When more than three members of the Board shall be 
standing at the same time, the Presiding Officer may require all to 
take their seats, the person only excepted who may be speaking. 

21. Every member, when speaking, shall address himself to the 
Presiding Officer. 

22. No speaker shall be interrupted, unless he be out of order, 
or for the purpose of correcting mistakes or misrepresentations. 

23. Without express permission, no member of the Board, while 
business is going on, shall engage in private conversation. 

24. Members shall attend closely, in their speeches, to the subject 
under consideration; and when they deviate from the subject, it shall 
be the privilege of any member, and the duty of the Presiding Officer, 
to call them to order. 

25. If any member consider himself aggrieved by a decision of. 
the Presiding Officer, it shall be his privilege to appeal to the Board, 
and the question on the appeal shall be taken without debate. 

26. Any member shall have the right to have his dissent from, 
or protest against, any action- of the Board, with the reason therefor, 
if couched in respectful language, recorded in the minutes. 



